Book guide
Under the Pendulum Sun
A Victorian missionary enters Fairyland and finds faith, family, and reality itself beginning to unravel.
Genre and trope pairingsFantasyFaeFantasyQuestGothic FantasyMythologyHistoricalMythologyMysteryMissing personHorrorIsolation
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About Under the Pendulum Sun
Catherine Helstone journeys to Arcadia, the land of the fae, after her missionary brother Laon disappears. Isolated in the sinister house of Gethsemane, she waits for news while the Queen of the Fae approaches, bringing a court that threatens both siblings’ souls and certainties.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- alcoholism
- animal death
- body horror
- child death
- colonialism
- confinement
- death
- dissociation
- incest
- manipulation
- mental illness
- murder
- sexism
- suicidal ideation
