Remote landscapes, folklore and women’s hidden histories give C. J. Cooke’s Gothic suspense its recurring atmosphere. J. Cooke writes contemporary Gothic and psychological horror in which remote landscapes, women’s histories and folklore turn domestic danger into something larger. The Nesting sends a nanny to an isolated Norwegian house where family grief and local legend begin to overlap. The Lighthouse Witches moves between timelines around a Scottish island, missing children and old accusations of witchcraft, while A Haunting in the Arctic places a modern expedition aboard a former whaling ship with a violent past. Cooke’s novels are atmospheric, female-centred and usually structured around secrets revealed across different periods. The strongest shelf associations are folk horror, Gothic suspense, witch fiction and supernatural mystery for readers of Jennifer McMahon and Laura Purcell. Read more Less
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