Read the full review to find out why Trad Wife is Sarah Langan’s best work to date, how it sits within the current wave of literary horror, and why its central argument about bodily autonomy, influencer culture, and the ancient horror of the controlled life is one the genre has been building toward for decades.
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Sarah Langan: How Trad Wife Turns the First‑Person Perspective into a Weapon of Horror
Sarah Langan breaks down how her neo-gothic horror novel Trad Wife uses a disintegrating narrator to expose the nightmare beneath influencer culture’s polished surface.