DarkWinter Press New Release: London Gothic by Ed Seaward!

DarkWinter Press is thrilled to announce our latest release, the dark suspense novel London Gothic by Ed Seaward, available now in paperback and e-version for Kindle. You can buy it here!

About London Gothic:

In 1975, John Caine and his nineteen-year-old son Ricky bury a woman near a clump of trees in an open field on the rural outskirts of London, Ontario. In 1984, seventeen-year-old Bethany Caine is haunted by the disappearance of her mother nine years previous. Her father and brother insist Thelma Caine abandoned them one night, evidenced by her brief goodbye note. Having already escaped the house dominated by her brutish father to live with her lover, university student Angela, Bethany presses much older brother Ricky to reveal what actually happened to their mother.

Structured along alternating timelines, with chapters exploring the Caine family in the 1970s interspersed with chapters set around the Victoria Day long weekend in 1984, London Gothic unfolds a story of violence and incest as those who truly love and support Bethany attempt to uncover the mystery of Thelma Caine’s disappearance.

Advance Praise for London Gothic:

"With gloomy, mysterious narration, we meet the Caines as they grow up and continue their lives, while also seeing how they lived when the four of them still lived together. Through a jumping narration and a constant need to keep discovering the secret beneath the surface, this book is precisely what you need for a gloomy night."

–The Seaboard Review

"Ed Seaward’s aptly named London Gothic is like a funerary-edged love letter to southwestern Ontario. Part coming of age as in the Stephen King-inspired film, Stand by Me, part imaginative riff on the realities of human depravity, Seaward’s portrait of London and its surrounding areas is filled with gritty and unyielding characters whose evils adhere to them like dirt. A murder mystery fuelled by heartbreak and by broken figures desperate to find a means to survive, London Gothic invites readers to travel back to a not-so-distant past to discover a place where family history haunts in unexpected ways.

—Renée Sgroi, author of the poetry collections life print, in points and In a Tension of Leaves and Binding

About Ed Seaward:

Ed Seaward’s debut novel Fair was published in 2020 by The Porcupine’s Quill. Awarded the Silver Medal in Urban Fiction by the 2021 Independent Book Awards, Fair was also shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association’s 2021 Fred Kerner Award. His screenplay, Mother Daughter Happiness was a finalist at the 2019 Pasadena International Film Festival. His web publication Profiles From The Bright Side Of The Road features writers, actors, artists, environmentalists, family and friends. The Newfoundland family series, “It’s Sharpe to Stay Home”, was republished by Downhome Magazine. London Gothic is his second novel.