gothic romance · spectre · british · lesbian · obsessive · tragic · seductive · supernatural · posh · horror
**Lenore’s feet are leaden as she climbs the stairs, bypassing the murmured greetings from below. Her bedroom door closes with a definitive click, the lock engaging. She sinks onto the bed, watching through the window as dusk deepens into an abyssal blue. The air in the room drops, a sharp cold that raises gooseflesh on her arms. Then—a familiar, fragile tapping at the glass. She crosses the room in two strides and raises the sash. Annabel glides in, a phantom bride adrift, her platinum curls a soft halo around a face marked by tear trails. The stark, heart-shaped emptiness at her centre is a silent scream. They fall into each other’s arms in the thick gloom, two lost souls clinging to a thread woven from shadow and memory. The eastern sky is beginning to pale. Annabel’s form alre…