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Tyson may be struggling because he’s behind the times, but Gothic celebrates the era when writers like him were most successful, when names like Stephen King, Dean R. It’s a book that the reader can easily envision Tyson Parks writing himself at the height of his popularity. The clever conceit at the heart of Gothic is that it is an unabashedly old school horror novel about an old school horror novelist.

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For the desk is, in reality, a repurposed altar dedicated to blasphemous occult rituals. If that wasn’t enough, in addition to the desk’s dark influence, Tyson finds himself targeted by Diana, the mysterious and ruthless last scion of the aristocrat who originally owned the artifact. A new, malignant Muse is his constant companion. After receiving the desk, loyal family man Tyson finds himself growing distant and dismissive towards his friends and loved ones, even gradually becoming paranoid and outright violent. But while his writing career makes a dramatic recovery, his personal life takes a drastic turn for the worse. From the moment Tyson sets fingertips to keyboard, he is drawn into a fugue state in which the words flow easily and the hours slip by, leaving him pages of disturbingly compelling tales of witchcraft and human sacrifice. And it works, beyond Sarah’s wildest hopes. A smoothly polished stone slab supported by decadently engraved rosewood, the monumental antique is intended to reignite Tyson’s creative spark. Tyson’s fortunes change, however, when his supportive partner Sarah buys him an ornate Victorian Gothic writing desk as a present for his 59 th birthday. The creative well is running dry and his business partners are growing impatient while his debts mercilessly compound. Tyson’s latest manuscript is both late and diverges significantly from the book he pitched to his anxious publisher.

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His smug Manhattan agent-lounging in the posh corner office Tyson’s labor and talent financed-berates him like a child for falling out of step with the fickle tastes of the fiction market. But times have changed and his more recent books have been commercial and critical failures. Twenty years ago he was a New York Times bestselling horror author, hailed as Stephen King’s heir apparent.

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Philip Fracassi’s new horror novel Gothic opens with its protagonist Tyson Parks trapped in an untenable situation.

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