American Gothic Short Stories

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. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Terri Bruce, Ramsey Campbell, E.E.W. Christman, Maxx Fidalgo, Joshua Hiles, Russell James, Clayton Kroh, Sean Logan, Madison McSweeney, Lynette Mejía, Joe Nazare, Wendy Nikel, Christi Nogle, Lina Rather, M. Regan, Rebecca Ring, Mike Robinson, Lucy A. Snyder, Valerie B. Williams, and Nemma Wollenfang. These appear alongside classic stories by authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O’Connor, Edgar Allan Poe and Edith Wharton.

Monika Elbert, Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, N.J., has published widely on American Gothic, with essays on the Gothic tradition in various authors, such as Hawthorne, Poe, Stowe, Alcott, Spofford, Phelps, Bierce, Jewett, and Wharton. She has co-edited two books on American Gothic: with Wendy Ryden, Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism, University of Alabama Press, 2017, and with Bridget M. Marshall, Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century, Ashgate, Jan. 2013 (Reprinted by Routledge, 2014). Her edited collection Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context (Cambridge University Press) was published in November 2018.