Various | American Midnight - Weird Tales Of The Dark

9781805331186

08/10/26

PB

224 pages

‘Fireside stories where guilt, distress and unforeseen illness strike a deliciously gothic note’ Sunday Express

A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a chilling nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling into the night: the ten stories in this collection are some of the most strange and uncanny in all American literature.

Selected by acclaimed novelist Laird Hunt, these weird tales by writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Zora Neale Hurston, offer a terrifying glimpse into the dark heart of the land of the free.

Contains:

‘The Masque of the Red Death’, Edgar Allan Poe
‘Young Goodman Brown’, Nathaniel Hawthorne
‘The Eyes’, Edith Wharton
‘The Mask’, Robert Chambers
‘Home’, Shirley Jackson
‘A Ghost Story’, Mark Twain
‘Spunk’, Zora Neale Hurston
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
‘An Itinerant House’, Emma Frances Dawson