The Canadian writer Margaret Millar was Agatha Christie’s favourite mystery novelist. For very good reason. THE IRON GATES (1945) is set in Toronto – the gated park in the book being Toronto’s very own High Park under snow. The novel falls into the category Urban Ontario Vintage Winter Gothic – a category I might have […]
Month: July 2017
Book Covers that Haunt…
I can’t fully explain my love of these vintage Gothic romance book covers, that were very common even into the 1970s and sold a variety of qualities of books from pulp to classics. You can find this type of pulp cover on inexpensive paperback reissues of classics, such as JANE EYRE. They’ve burrowed into my […]