This Valentine’s week, come for a walk up on t’moors with me and Agatha Andrews.

 

I’ve invited Agatha, my friend and sister-in-Gothic, host of She Wore Black podcast, for a conversation about Wuthering Heights.

It’s known as “the greatest love story ever told,” but that’s such nonsense. Instead we talk about mania and melancholy, hate and power, cannibalism

and necrophilia… and we also look ahead to the Hollywood adaptation with bated (but amused) breath.

 

Enjoy!

 

Other books mentioned:

 

• David Copperfield (1850), by Charles Dickens
• The Brontës (1994), by Juliet Barker
• The Gabriel Hounds (1964), by Mary Stewart
• East of Eden (1952), by John Steinbeck
• The Vampyre (1819), by John Polidori
• The Favourites (2025), by Layne Fargo

 

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