amazing gothic, and sometimes near cosmic horror short stories.
Amazing control of language, so many words I need to look up! Not exactly "Gormenghast", but close.
Her heels clomped with a pleasing hollowness on drab flagstones. Silver-haired, she was attired in a gray suit, a big bow flopping up to her lower chins. In her left hand was a long enveloppe, neatly cesareaned, and in her right hand the letter it had contained, folded in sections like a triptych.
