Rottenheart’s Kat Dunn on queering Hamlet and her favorite Gothic novels

News Briefvia The A.V. ClubOctober 22, 2026

With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list of reading materials that are tied together by a singular theme. Kat Dunn’s critically acclaimed 2025 novel Hungerstone was a new take on an old story: J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 gothic vampire novella, Carmilla, which predates Dracula by over 20 years.

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