Book Review: Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh
This post contains affiliate links, which means that we’ll earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links. “Nothing is clean, all is putrefying, everyone, from the newborn babe to the man who breathes his last, all the flowers, all the animals. Now we know that the world itself decays, the sun burns out. There is no permanence, there is no health. All dissolves.” 📚 It’s 2017, and Reverend Stutley Tillinghast lives as a recluse, seemingly acting as the pastor of an isolated, inactive Rhode Island parish. Aside from the numerous corpses buried in his cellar — periodic casualties of his insatiable bloodthirst — he’s avoided human contact for decades. Having lived longer than any person should, he’s haunted by the only one of his kind he has ever encountered: Lena Browne, who may have turned him into a monster, and for whom he still yearns. His lonely existence is disrupted after a woman named Sarah arrives bearing his last name and a remarkable resemblance to Lena. He...
