In Fairfold, the Alderking rules over a court of fairy Folk who are both terrifying and alluring. The setting for The Darkest Part of the Forest, the town of Fairfold, is also built on a bargain with monsters – the Folk. Coldtown is essentially a plague city and vampire playground sanctioned and controlled by the state in order to save the remaining human population. The Darkest Part of the Forest, Black’s newest young adult novel, swaps vampires for faeries but explores similar territory, mixing gothic-realism with dark fantasy. It was designed to show readers that they could be simultaneously horrified, thrilled and surprised by American Gothic. Her novel The Coldest Girl in Coldtown presented an original, nightmarish vampire world that mixed garish tourist stops, rolling social media and a state sanctioned blood sucking system with classic horror imagery. Holly Black is one of the reigning queens of modern gothic.
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