Literary Fiction

The Shape of Darkness

by Laura Purcell

A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a child spirit medium to speak with the dead — and identify their killers. Purcell's atmospheric gothic where séances, shadows, and the dawn of photography converge in a tale of loss and exposure.

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