Caitlin Starling

Jul 1, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Marion Deeds |Caitlin Starling

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin StarlingCaitlin Starling’s 2022 novel The Death of Jane Lawrence got enthusiastic critical reviews and was nominated for a Stoker Award, so clearly people loved it. In spite of an interesting premise, the book was a disconnect for me. Your mileage may vary. Jane Shoringfield is an orphan raised by a kind couple after her parents were killed in a war.

Nov 26, 2023 | horrordna.com | Tony Jones |Caitlin Starling

Several novels into an impressively creative career, Caitlin Starling remains as elusive to categorise as ever. To many critics, The Luminous Dead (2019) heralded the arrival of a major new voice in science fiction, only for Starling to neatly sidestep into historical drama with her follow-up, effortlessly blending in a dose of horror into The Death of Jane Lawrence (2021).

Oct 20, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Caitlin Starling

Some works of horror defy easy categorization, and that is certainly the case with LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM. Caitlin Starling doesn’t simply rehash old horror tropes and gags but plays with the genre. She creates something more akin to a simmering speculative thriller with a creeping sense of dread and rooted in some expected but compelling doppelgänger themes. Dr. Tamsin Rivers is a tough-as-nails scientist working as a researcher for a communication corporation in San Siroco.

Oct 12, 2023 | crimereads.com | Caitlin Starling

Who are you without your memories? If you developed amnesia, how could you find yourself again? By listening to people who may have known you before? By searching out more objective scraps of your past? If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll find a diary. If you’re not, you might have nothing at all. And how much of your personality is actively shaped by your memories? Would you experience the world differently without them? How much of you is made up of the past–and what endures without it?

Oct 11, 2023 | redcarpetcrash.com | Caitlin Starling

The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn’t exist before – and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating and cruel.