With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of
relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied
imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next
anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series.
As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the
work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce,
Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W. Chesnutt,
Kate Chopin, Ralph Adams Cram, Stephen Crane, Emma Dawson, Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen Glasgow, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace
King, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, W.C. Morrow, Flannery O'Connor,
Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Clark Ashton Smith, Harriet
Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Madeline Yale
Wynne.