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Horror · Classics

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Eighteen-year-old Merricat lives with her sister and ailing uncle in a large house outside a village that shuns them, since poison killed the rest of the family years ago. A visiting cousin disturbs their routine.

First published
1962
Pace
slow
Length
short
Format
Standalone

Read this if you want a short, strange, beautifully written gothic with a narrator you cannot quite trust.

Skip this if you want a conventional plot or a clear moral.

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Content warnings

  • Death
  • Bullying

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