… but the Paolo Roversi photo spread (in the 10/09 issue) was like turning a corner and bumping into an unexpected friend: half these gals I recognize from Under the Poppy, and the other half would be quite at home in my just-finished YA novel, Planchette.  Beauty in the dark, certainly, as well as that delicately ferocious Gothic esthetic.  (I could do without the sad and chilly taxidermy, though the Victorians were always stuffing things, weren’t they.)