Christmas Gothic Short Stories

A celebration of the gothic for during the holiday season, a delightful gift, and a real treat to curl up and read in the long Winter nights.

The Christmas Gothic (with thanks to author Marina Favila for the suggestion) is a seasonal celebration of the dark and moody, the ghastly, the ghostly and the magical Christmas short story. New stories from open submissions join the classic tales of Algernon Blackwood, James Joyce, E.F. Benson, Elizabeth Gaskell and more.

The new, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Ramsey Campbell, Donna Cuttress, James Dodds, JG Faherty, Marina Favila, Kevin M. Folliard, John Linwood Grant, K.M. Hazel, Larry Hodges, E.E. King, Jonathan Robbins Leon, Clare Marsh, Marshall J. Moore, Templeton Moss, Jane Nightshade, Marie O’Regan, Katherine Quevedo, M.C. St. John, Lamont A. Turner, Suzanne J. Willis, and Cassondra Windwalker.

Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Jerrold E. Hogle (Foreword; Ph. D., Harvard University) is Professor Emeritus of English and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona in the USA. The winner of Guggenheim, Mellon and other fellowships for research – and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America – he has published extensively on English Romantic literature, literary theory and the Gothic. His books include Shelley’s Process from Oxford UP; The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera from Palgrave Macmillan; The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction from the Cambridge UP; its follow-up volume, The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic, co-edited with Robert Miles, for the Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic series.

Created and developed at Flame Tree Publishing, independent publisher and creator of fine books, journals, notebooks and art calendars, with a focus on myths, gothic fantasy and great works.

ISBN: 9781804171646
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Published: October 18, 2022