Johanna van Veen
Johanna van Veen’s work lives in the shadows, where the eerie and the emotional dance together in a space both beautiful and unsettling. A fresh voice in contemporary gothic fiction, she is reshaping what it means to blend horror with queer narratives, challenging conventions while still embracing the tradition of slow-burning dread. In her debut novel, My Darling Dreadful Thing, she pulls readers into a world of possession and psychological terror, where the haunting is as much internal as it is supernatural. It's a book that lingers, where the heartbeats of its characters echo long after the final page. Born in the Netherlands, van Veen's…