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Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is the author of two prize-winning novels, The Essex Serpent (2016) and After Me Comes the Flood (2014). She lives in Norfolk.

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Painting of a barren forest with twisted trees and ruins of a Gothic church at dusk, creating a sombre, eerie atmosphere.

essayBeauty and aesthetics

A sublime contagion

The Gothic is more than vampires and flying buttresses, burgundy lips and black lace: it is the thrill of transgression

Sarah Perry