The Vanity Fair excerpt's prose is clipped, overwrought, and unsuccessfully mimics Joan Didion, featuring repetitive phrasing and a surreal "bullet theoretical" passage.
The Decadence by Leon Craig review queer haunted house tale fails to chill
A queer haunted-house novel relies on a compelling gothic setup but is undermined by shallow characterization, inauthentic dialogue, heavy exposition, and overwritten prose.