Victorian Psycho (eBook)

A Novel

Virginia Feito (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
208 Seiten
Liveright (Verlag)
9781631498640 (ISBN)

Infos

SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MAIKA MONROE, THOMASIN MCKENZIE AND JASON ISSACS"e;This book will be the bloody belle of the 2025 literary ball."e; (Oprah Daily)Most Anticipated Books of 2025: Vulture, Oprah Daily, Polygon, Reader's Digest, Lit Hub, Men's Health, CrimeReads, The Stacks, LibraryReads, PasteBest Books of the Month: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Goodreads, Gizmodo, Book Riot, The A.V. Club, Apple Books, AmazonThe American Booksellers Association's #1 Indie Next Great Read! (Feb 2025)A Matty Maggiacomo Book Club SelectionSimmering with rage, propulsive and laugh out loud funny, Victorian Psycho speaks profoundly of horror both within and without us. Catriona WardFrom the acclaimed author of Mrs. March comes the riveting tale of a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance.Virginia Feitos Mrs. March was hailed as a brilliant debut . . . [by] a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes (Sarah Ditum, Guardian)from Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley Jackson to Patricia Highsmith. Now, Feito returns with her silver-polish sentences and her eerie psychological acumen (Constance Grady, Vox) to unleash an entirely new antihero on us all.Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governessshell dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estates dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds familyMr. Pounds cant keep his eyes off Winifreds chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husbands wandering gaze. Compounded with her disdain for the entitled Pounds children, Winifred finds herself struggling at every turn to stifle the violent compulsions of her past. French tutoring and needlework are one way to pass the time, as is admiring the ugly portraits in the gallery . . . and creeping across the moonlit lawns. . . .Patience. Winifred must have patience, for Christmas is coming, and she has very special gifts planned for the dear souls of Ensor House. Brimming with sardonic wit and culminating in a shocking conclusion, Victorian Psycho plunges readers into the chilling mind of an iconic new literary psychopath.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 4 black-and-white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Schlagworte: aristocrat • Axe murderer • Booktok • Cannibalism • Dickens • Funny • governess • haunted mansion • historical fiction • Horror • Laudanum • Murder • Narcissism • orphanage • Patrick Bateman • Plague • Saltburn • Santa • scrooge • sociopathy • Wit
• ISBN-13: 9781631498640 / 9781631498640