A Gothic Cookbook: Hauntingly Delicious Recipes Inspired by 13 Classic Tales

And something rather delicious, too - as our cookbook embarks on its final journey into print. The final edits have been made, the fonts have been chosen, and our tweaked, touched up, polished and per...

Some exciting news… The fabulous Leone Ross has agreed to write the foreword to A Gothic Cookbook. Leone’s novel, This One Sky Day, was long-listed for the Women’s Prize For Fiction in 2022. Like much...

He spends months working on it.. Sacrificing his personal life. Shutting himself away from the outside world. Digging up body parts. Raiding morgues... Grave-robbing aside, we're equally dedicated whe...

It's that time of year again; the days are crisper, the nights are chillier, and doorsteps are dotted with carved, candlelit pumpkins. Halloween is creeping up with spindly, skeletal limbs, and we're ...

As the nights become as chilly as Dracula's draughty lair, we have a recipe to warm the cockles: Paprika Hendl, just like the one Jonathan Harker longed for Mina to recreate at home. It's one of the r...

Well, it's official – the world's first cookbook inspired by Gothic literature will be published! We say it a lot but never enough – thank you! We know there's always a leap of faith to be made when s...

We’ve been a bit quiet lately but, now that we’re very (very) close to reaching our target and releasing our monster into the wild, here’s a long overdue update. The main motivation behind the book is...

This weekend marks 55 years since Rosemary's Baby was published. Ira Levin's terrifying tale depicted witchcraft and devilry creeping into the domestic realm in the most insidious manner, and food is ...

It's been a while since our last update, so we thought we should let you know what we've been up to. So far, 2022 has been a flurry of perfecting our recipes, testing, tasting and testing again. One o...

Hello everyone, We know some of you have pledged – or might be thinking of pledging – for a copy of our spooky cookbook for the Gothic/food/literature lovers in your life, so we've designed a card tha...

Hello, and happy (nearly) Halloween! We've put together a three-course menu as a little treat (no tricks here), with recipes for a starter, main and dessert from the cookbook, along with an aperitif f...

Spooky season is here at last! To celebrate, we'll be posting tricks and treats (mostly treats) every day, advent-style. There will be cooking tips, recipe inspiration, spooky facts, discount codes, v...

Last night I dreamt I ate some gingerbread again... We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has so generously and enthusiastically supported our spooky cookbook. You've helped us to pass the h...

We've been rather busy this month, in the nicest possible way: researching 1930s recipe books and whisking, folding, whipping, griddling, baking our way to the perfect Manderley afternoon tea. It wasn...

We've been rather busy this month, in the nicest possible way: researching 1930s recipe books and whisking, folding, whipping, griddling, baking our way to the perfect Manderley afternoon tea. It wasn...

Hello! This week, while we've been writing, drawing and recipe testing as usual, our resident "Goth dog" Dolly has been patiently posing for this portrait to demonstrate our latest crowdfunding pledge...

Hello everyone, Just a note to say thank you to all of our supporters so far. We're not quite a month into funding and are close to a third of the way there, so hopefully it shouldn't be long until ou...

After a little over a week, A Gothic Cookbook is already one-fifth funded. We're thrilled that so many people "get" our proudly strange cookbook because, let's face it, it isn't exactly your tradition...

We're on our way! Thank you so much to our first supporters for having faith in our project. We're all very proud and very nervous, so having people pledge for the book (and beyond) on DAY ONE has bee...