Horror
Last to Leave the Room
2023·320 pages
A ruthless scientist finds her doppelgänger behind a mysterious basement door as her city sinks and her grip on identity unravels.
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A ruthless scientist finds her doppelgänger behind a mysterious basement door as her city sinks and her grip on identity unravels.
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Last to Leave the Room is a new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from Caitlin Starling, the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin becomes obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn’t exist before - and one night, it opens ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Sexual content and a queer relationship; not a central romance
Violence & gore
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Gruesome eye injury; torture, gore, and biomedical experimentation
Profanity
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Occasional strong cursing throughout the narrative
Substance use
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Alcohol use depicted at a recurring moderate level
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Sapphic protagonist; queer relationship develops later in the story
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No evidence found in available sources
Political content
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Gaslighting, dehumanization, kidnapping; domestic abuse themes
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