Sit back in your most comfortable chair, have a blanket ready to wrap around your shoulders, and be alone in the house if you dare. This compilation of stories from some of the greatest horror writers of America will keep you checking the shadows in the corner of the room, just to be sure nothing lurks where the lights can’t reach.

From the back cover: Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers.

Price:  $14.00