Show Notes
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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