Description

Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy deluxe edition short story compilations, Supernatural Horror, Murder Mayhem, Lost Souls and many others, this latest title takes housebound trapped spirits and creepy gothic mansions as its chilling subject. Contains a potent mix of classic and brand new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Oh, what is that sound within the walls? The creaking floorboards, the children hiding in the mirror, the spirits that rake across the flesh of the mind – all find a home in this anthology of spine-tingling tales.

New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Rebecca Buchanan, Ramsey Campbell, H.B. Diaz, Tom English, John Everson, Marina Favila, Shannon Fay, Adele Gardner, Gwendolyn Kiste, Bill Kte'pi, John M. McIlveen, Kurt Newton, M. Regan, Zandra Renwick, Zach Shephard, Morgan Sylvia, and Mikal Trimm. Classic authors include E.F. Benson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Elizabeth Gaskell, W.W. Jacobs, M.R. James, Edith Wharton and more.

About the author(s)

Ramsey Campbell has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

John Everson is an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror cinema. He's also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The House By The Cemetery and fourteen other novels, including Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds and Siren.

Zach Shephard lives in Washington state, where he dreams up fantasy, science fiction and horror stories. His fiction has appeared in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series, and several of Flame Tree Publishing's Gothic Fantasy books. For a full list of Zach's stories, check out zachshephard.com.

Dr. Rebecca Janicker is a senior lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She is the author of The Literary Haunted House (2015) and the editor of Reading ‘American Horror Story’ (2017). Her other publications have focused on the Gothic fictions of Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Richard Matheson and H.P. Lovecraft.

Reviews

"Another recent volume of the Gothic Fantasy series is Haunted House Short Stories, which offers another selection of excellent fiction."

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