Omg read Shirley Jackson if you haven’t already. Haunting at Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and The Sundial all have the claustrophobic focus on place. Misogyny exists in her books but because it exists in the world—her writing observes and comments on it. It doesn’t think it’s a happy ending. (Hangsaman is also a fantastic horror novel but I don’t think it’s trying to be. It’s a woman coming of age in the fifties at a woman’s college—so, horror novel.)
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