This Cursed House set in Louisiana

Submitted: 24th October 2024

This Cursed House – Del Sandeen

Off to Louisiana with this gothic beauty!

Luxury plantation houses set in the ugly landscape of slavery and racism. This is a gothic novel set in the Deep South along the river in Louisiana and New Orleans.

Map of locations in This Cursed House

This Cursed House set in Louisiana

BOARDING PASS INFORMATION

Destination : New Orleans, Louisiana

Author guide: Del Sandeen

Genre: gothic, historical

Food and drink to accompany: Creole of course!

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A novel to transport you to America’s Deep South

Map of locations in This Cursed House

Ever since I actually visited Louisiana and the plantation houses, then watched the film The Skeleton Key, I have been both fascinated and totally creeped out by the ugly beauty of this part of the world.

This book just elevates that feeling to a whole new level.

Jemma gets offered a job in a house in deepest, darkest Louisiana. She thinks she is there to tutor a small child. However the chilling truth is not yet ready to reveal itself.

Think gothic darkness, shadows, curses, and a looming mansion house that controls its inhabitants like an all seeing prison guard does its prisoners. The darkness hides some ugliness but not all – this is a region that is in the middle of the racist society of the time. Colour and creed mattered. What you looked like and where you came from mattered. The hatred is as palpable as the midday sun. Whilst some of this was hard to read, the author writes and evokes the time well.

But let’s get back to that house. Just what kind of house are we talking about? A house with spirits, with ghosts, with tons of secrets. Jemma is not there for the role she thought she was there for. There is a sense of foreboding from the start and it gets you, as its beat starts to get louder and louder….

The author has deftly brought the Jim Crow era to life and I can only imagine the horrors she unearthed when researching this novel. What she didn’t include is what lingers in the back of my mind.

Gorgeously gothic and darkly devious.