Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales

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A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant...a serial killer who defies death...a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampire contemplating his end, and a fanged brat who drains the patience of a bumbling teenage boy. Here too are a flamboyant young novelist in search of a subject more compelling than his own eerie existence and the daughter of a sorcerer fighting to free her lover — and her will — from sinister bonds. Enter the world of Gothic!, a celebration of the literary form made famous by such writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. 

With chilling stories by: 
Joan Aiken 
M. T. Anderson 
Neil Gaiman 
Caitlín R. Kiernan 
Gregory Maguire 
Garth Nix 
Celia Rees 
Janni Lee Simner 
Vivian Vande Velde 
Barry Yourgrau