Philip Fracassi’s Gothic follows Tyson Parks, a struggling horror novelist who receives an antique desk that channels an ancient evil through his creative desperation. In our full review at Ginger Nuts of Horror, we examine why this cursed-object novel is one of the sharpest entries in the writer-descending-into-madness subgenre in years, and why Fracassi’s multi-POV structure and pulp-literary sensibility make it something considerably more unsettling than nostalgia.