What if Pride & Prejudice wasn't a bucolic tale of classic romance? What if Netherfield Park hid a dark and menacing secret? And what if Caroline Bingley had a sinister motive for inviting Jane to visit? Stefanie and Melinda discuss Lovecraftian horror as a genre, the prospect of Pride & Prejudice being a much, much shorter novel, and why on earth Elizabeth Bennet would ever have called on the Bingleys without a formal introduction, in Love, Lovecraft & Mr Darcy by Violet King.

Links & Mentions

Read more about H.P. Lovecraft here.

Learn more about what exactly an Eldritch Being is here 

Aja Romano's excellent article How HBO’s Lovecraft Country illuminates H.P. Lovecraft’s history of literary racism for Vox is linked here 

Read the Reuters investigation into the tidal wave of AI books on Amazon is here and a fuller investigation of how fake books have always been a scam is here on Robert Evans' substack, Shatterzone.   

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