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Couching at the Door

Dorothy Kathleen Broster is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist.

Genre
horrorghost
Themes
gothic
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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