About the Book
Charleston, 1816 — the year the skies stayed hazy and the summer never quite arrived. When a foreign aristocrat takes up residence at an old estate outside the city, the genteel surface of polite society begins, slowly, to come apart.
Told across the alternating voices of the people who live through it — a schoolteacher with a habit of writing things down, a shipping clerk who can't stop thinking about a delivery he processed, a physician who has spent his career reading what Charleston prefers to dismiss, and the friends and family drawn into their orbit — Grayhaven follows an ordinary Charleston circle as quiet unease gives way to something older and hungrier, building toward a violent reckoning in the marshes outside the city.
For readers drawn to the classic gothic tradition of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde, Grayhaven is a slow-burn historical horror novel about complicity, found evidence, and the cost of looking away.
About the Author
J.R. Dodson writes gothic fiction — stories of old houses, old secrets, and the slow erosion of the people who live among them. Grayhaven, a historical gothic set in 1816 Charleston, is their debut novel.
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