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Podcast: Castle of Horror Podcast
Episode: Castle Talk: Gwendolyne Kiste, author of Reluctant Immortals, Which Ties Dracula to Jane Eyre in the 60s
Description: Tonight we’re chatting with three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste, author of RELUCTANT IMMORTALS (On sale August 23; Saga Press; Trade Paperback Original), which the publisher calls a centuries-overdue literary rescue mission of two of gothic literature’s most unjustly scourged female characters; Bertha Mason and Lucy Westenra of respectively Jane Eyre and Dracula.But what if Bertha and Lucy’s stories didn’t end with these gruesome exploitations? What if they had a chance to take back the pages to confront their abusers and claim a new ending for themselves?In RELUCTANT IMMORTALS It’s 1967 and Bertha (Be...