The haunting was always real. Thompson just gave it a name. Social horror has always worked best when the monster points somewhere. At something. At us. Tamika Thompson’s debut novel, The Curse of Hester Gardens, published by Erewhon Books in March 2026, does exactly that, and it does it with … The Ghost Is the System: Tamika Thompson on The Curse of Hester Gardens and the Horror America BuiltRead more
The Curse of Hester Gardens
Review, The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson: A New Classic of American Gothic
The Curse of Hester Gardens will haunt you twice: once for the ghosts, and again for the terrible recognition that you’ve been living alongside this horror your whole life without ever really seeing it. There are haunted houses, and then there are haunted places, those geographical wounds in the American landscape … Review, The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson: A New Classic of American GothicRead more