The Dark Mistress of Longs’ Mansion: A Gothic Mystery of Beauty & Ruin

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Longs’ Mansion was built to out-last his history. Instead, it became the mausoleum of inherited privilege.

Silent, secretive, and distant, it stood solid against the baggage of an era gone by. The halls inviolate, anyone who dared intrude into its private world would incur the slow wrath of the watchful stony walls.

In a nation reshaping itself after the empire, Zira, from the dark forests of Kalahandi, enters the magnificent estate as its last mistress. She is seduced by its colonial splendour, blind to the present rot beneath.

Obsessed with British pageantry, the family were prisoners of a vanished empire.

Desire, repression and ancestral cruelty rule their days. Sparkling and rebellious, Zira’s presence shatters the unspoken control of the mansion. She challenges its fragile order as she reopens the locked rooms, and histories re-surface.

Yet, Zira cannot escape the destiny they dictate. Her longing, defiance, and gradual doom mirror a class crumbling under the weight of lost power. As the mansion feeds on memory and repression, love mutates into possession; beauty into violence, and tradition into something predatory.

Longs’ estate does not forgive. It consumes.

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Mandira Mazumder

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Mandira Mazumder was a Senior Secondary English teacher. She also served as a guest lecturer at the college and university level while contributing to the US magazine Ezine between 2013 and 2017. She was honoured with an Expert Author certificate. Her debut book, Even Caged Birds Sing, was published in 2020 and earned her a discerning readership at home and abroad. This book explored the independent voices of Indian women of the 1980s and 1990s, and their journey of self- evolution amidst life's struggles. It received wide appreciation in literary circles. Her Untamed Soul (2021) received critical acclaim for its gripping portrayal of crime, legal suspense, and the socio-political realities of rural Tamil Nadu. Phoenix presents a finely edited and condensed edition of the previous novel in a single volume. In 2022, the author was honoured with a Literary Award by a New Delhi author's association for her strong portrayal of women's voices in Indian Literature. Mandira is the first Indian author in English to explore pure Gothic mystery horror, weaving together the dark psyche of the human mind, crime, and the paranormal against the haunting backdrop of postcolonial India. Her work reflects the shadows that lingered through decades before evolving into the identity of modern Bharat.

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ISBN: 978-81-988990-0-2
Published: 31 May 2026
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Binding: Hardbound
Published by: Virasat Trade

 

A haunting, Gothic mystery

Longs’ Mansion was built to out-last his history. Instead, it became the mausoleum of inherited privilege.

Silent, secretive, and distant, it stood solid against the baggage of an era gone by. The halls inviolate, anyone who dared intrude into its private world would incur the slow wrath of the watchful stony walls.

In a nation reshaping itself after the empire, Zira, from the dark forests of Kalahandi, enters the magnificent estate as its last mistress. She is seduced by its colonial splendour, blind to the present rot beneath.

Obsessed with British pageantry, the family were prisoners of a vanished empire.

Desire, repression and ancestral cruelty rule their days. Sparkling and rebellious, Zira’s presence shatters the unspoken control of the mansion. She challenges its fragile order as she reopens the locked rooms, and histories re-surface.

Yet, Zira cannot escape the destiny they dictate. Her longing, defiance, and gradual doom mirror a class crumbling under the weight of lost power. As the mansion feeds on memory and repression, love mutates into possession; beauty into violence, and tradition into something predatory.

Longs’ estate does not forgive. It consumes.

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