Tillinghast

In Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh, a reclusive Rhode Island minister has spent decades keeping his monstrous appetites hidden in plain sight — and readers who like their **horror** intimate, unsettling and sharply written will be immediately pulled in.

Stutley Tillinghast lives alone in a remote rural parish, limiting human contact to encounters that end brutally, then quietly, beneath his own floorboards. He doesn’t label what he is; he simply endures his urges until they become impossible to ignore. When a 19-year-old girl arrives from the UK searching for him, carrying his surname and an uncanny resemblance, his carefully managed isolation fractures. She’s dangerously ill, and he recognises the symptoms with dreadingly personal clarity — along with the kind of remedy she may be desperate for.

Perfect for fans of **gothic fiction**, **vampire**-adjacent tales, rural unease, and character-driven **dark literature**.

Step into Tillinghast’s parish and see what’s been waiting in the cellar.