A novel that already has an adaptation on the way starring Margaret Qualley and Thomasin McKenzie, Victorian Psycho follows a ...

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Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...