Rami Ungar The Writer

Run into all the creepy houses! Summon a lightning storm! Uncover terrible family secrets that will haunt you as much as any ghost! The Pure World Comes is officially four years old!

Well, technically it came out as a story on an app in 2021, but I always count May 10, 2022, when the paperback and ebook were released, as TPWC‘s real birthday/release day.

Now, for those of you who don’t know, The Pure World Comes is a Gothic horror novel I wrote in 2020. It was the very beginning of the pandemic, and I had had this idea for a novelette about a maid in Victorian England who goes to work for a mad scientist rolling around in the back of my head for a few years now. In fact, I’d spent several years just researching everything I could about the Victorian era just so I could bring the novel to life! And then suddenly, I was working from home and I had all this time to myself. I dove in, still thinking it would be a novella, and two months later, I came out with a novel that came to me in a frenzy.

A year later, the novel was published on the app, and another year later, it was out in paperback and ebook, followed a few months later by an audio book. A beautiful and creepy love letter to the Victorian era and all the scary stories that came out in that period.

Here is the blurb on the back cover:

Shirley Dobbins wants nothing more than to live a quiet life and become a head housekeeper at a prestigious house. So when she is invited to come work for the mysterious baronet Sir Joseph Hunting at his estate, she thinks it is the chance of a lifetime. However, from the moment she arrives, things are not what they seem. As she becomes wrapped up in more of the baronet’s radical science, she realizes something dark and otherworldly is loose within the estate. And if left unchecked, it’ll claim the lives of all she holds dear.

Funny story: last weekend, I was at Columbus Horror Con, and this young woman came up to check out my books. She picked up a copy of TPWC and let me know, not without some shock, that her last name was Dobbins, and her grandmother’s name was Shirley. Coincidence? Yes, but still a wild coincidence! Almost like fate. Anyway, she bought a copy, and when I signed it, I wrote that I hoped that she and her grandmother enjoyed the book.

And the nice thing is, lots of people have enjoyed The Pure World Comes since it came out. Here is what some people have said reading it:

This book kept you on the edge with its many twists and turns. Really haven’t read anything like it. I will follow this author 

Amazon Customer, Amazon

I love it when I’m pleasantly surprised by a book. Rami Ungar is not a debut author, (according to the back of the book, this is his fourth novel), but his work is new to me and so I went in not knowing what to expect.

What I got was a short novel so perfectly Victorian and utterly Gothic that it made my old-fashioned self giddy as a schoolgirl.

Heather Daughrity, author of Secrets My Grandmother Told Me, Goodreads

There were quite a few things I liked about this book – the attempt to make it historically accurate (required a lot of research), the author’s take on a possible Jack the Ripper scenario (no spoilers!), And the Big Reveal itself. I quite like the idea. I think it has many possibilities and potential uses as a plot device for future (possibly non related) stories…Exceptional work.

Ronald W. Gillepsie Jr., author of Inside My Nightmares, Amazon

I’m very glad that these people have loved this book so much. And there are several more reviews where that came from, if you care to look. (More on that below.)

So, what’s next for my little Gothic horror novel? Honestly, all I want is for more people to read it, so I’ll keep trying to make that happen. Thankfully, I’ll have plenty of opportunities in the future to find new readers. Hell, I managed to find a woman named Dobbins who’s grandmother’s name is Shirley just the other day. I’m sure there are other people who will want to read it. And if they do, I hope they let me know what they thought. Not only do I appreciate feedback from my readers, but leaving feedback in public spaces like Amazon or Goodreads helps other readers as well.

And if you would like to read TPWC, I’ll include links below. It’s one of the most widely available of my books, if not the most widely available, so I’m sure you’ll find a bookseller that you use. And if you like what you read…well, you know.

Anyway, that’s all for now, my Followers of Fear. I’m off to celebrate the anniversary and maybe get some more writing work done. Until next time, good night, pleasant nightmares, and is that the ghost of Jack the Ripper behind you? Careful, he’s got a knife!