Welcome to Ensor Home in Victorian England. We arrive right here alongside governess Winifred Notty who has come to the dreary property to take care of and tutor her two costs, Drusilla and Andrew Kilos. Instantly upon assembly the youngsters, Winifred (or “Fred” as she is typically referred to as) notices how utterly unremarkable and, frankly, silly they each are. However, Winifred is decided to play the proper well-behaved governess. She is going to do her job to the most effective of her skills. And she’s going to by no means, ever, ever commit any violent crimes or kill any infants. Not this time. She guarantees herself.
However the extra time she spends with the Kilos household, the extra she feels the violent urges inside her effervescent as much as the floor once more. Mr. Kilos has no misgivings about brazenly ogling Winifred and doesn’t thoughts flirting along with her in full view of others. In the meantime, Mrs. Kilos sees her husband’s conduct as a purpose to punish Winifred. Between the Kilos’ attractive patriarch, the continually furious matriarch, and two infuriatingly dim youngsters, Winifred has bother conserving her rage in examine. And, yeah…okay…possibly Winifred begins to present into a few of her stranger urges. Who can blame her, actually?
However Winifred has a plan. As she counts down the times to Christmas, Winifred imagines all of the horrible issues she’d like to do to the Kilos household and their obnoxious wealthy associates. Not an excessive amount of longer now earlier than she will make her desires a actuality. In any case, the vacations are all about needs coming true.
Okay, so I do know I talked loads about Christmas whereas describing this guide, however belief me. This isn’t a comfy vacation learn. Victorian Psycho is a much-needed brutal takedown of the higher class and all of the unusual ideologies we nonetheless uphold in modern society. When you’ve ever felt a need to rage towards the system or simply tear the entire world down, then this guide is for you. When you love feminist horror that’s not afraid to get a little bit bit bloody, then this guide is for you.
Oh, and I nonetheless haven’t talked about my favourite factor about Victorian Psycho: this novel is so humorous. Perhaps it sounds unusual to giggle a few lady who fantasizes about consuming youngsters. However belief me. Feito’s direct supply of our narrator’s horrifying impulses and perversions will make you giggle along with her. You may even end up questioning if you happen to wouldn’t suppose and act the identical manner Winifred does if you happen to have been put in that very same place.
Victorian Psycho is the horror novel we didn’t know we would have liked. When you’ve been feeling indignant or unhappy about 2025, you may discover that this fast little 208-page fever dream is the proper factor to scratch that itch.