The Monk, An Irreverent Synopsis

My posts about Matthew Lewis’s The Monk remain some of the most popular I’ve written. I can only imagine people are using them to pass tests in classes instead of reading the book itself. Which I am fine with.

It’s a 400+ pages Gothic novel; my series of posts was only about 6000 words.

This past year for Christmas I collected all the posts, cleaned them up, and put them in a booklet that I gave to my patrons as a holiday gift.

“like a poisonous mulled wine, delightful” – a patro...