Pearl Bound

Listicles

Queer Gothic Reads Where Power, Desire and Dark Secrets Refuse to Stay Buried

Queer gothic fiction is dangerous in the best way: it whispers, it seduces, it drags you into dark hallways where desire hides in shadow and power shifts with every glance. The following novels are about women, outsiders and anyone daring enough to claim a voice in worlds built to silence…

BookTribJanuary 19, 2026

Author Spotlight

Natalie Bergman on the Cost of Inheritance in “Pearl Bound”

Set against the unforgiving landscape of late–19th-century upstate New York, Pearl Bound is a novel where history presses as heavily as fate and love is inseparable from survival. In this conversation, author Natalie Bergman discusses how the Gilded Age’s stark inequalities shaped her story, why the supernatural functions as a…

BookTribDecember 19, 2025

Hidden Gems Romance

American Gothic Sapphic Thriller Has Celtic Roots

In a cabin in upstate New York’s frigid wilderness, a hungry woman waits for her husband to return from hunting. She remembers the tenement they left in Dublin, filled with friends and warmth. Now they struggle for survival alone. Just as troubling to Moira Kelly is the strange behavior of…

Joanna PoncavageDecember 16, 2025

Queer Gothic Reads Where Power, Desire and Dark Secrets Refuse to Stay Buried

Natalie Bergman on the Cost of Inheritance in “Pearl Bound”

American Gothic Sapphic Thriller Has Celtic Roots

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