American Midnight: Tales of the Dark

Description

A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal ritual; a black bobcat howling in the night: these tales are some of the most strange and unsettling in all of American literature, filled with unforgettable imagery and simmering with tension. The stories in this collection were selected by Laird Hunt, an author of seven acclaimed novels which explore the darkest corners of American history. Contains: The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe; Young Goodman Browne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Eyes by Edith Wharton, The Mask, Robert Chambers, Home by Shirley Jackson, A Ghost Story by Mark Twain; Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and An Itinerant House by Emma Frances Dawson

Laird Hunt is an American writer and translator. He has written seven novels, including Neverhome, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, an IndieNext selection, winner of the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine and The Bridge prize, and a finalist for the Prix Femina Etranger. His In the House in the Dark of the Woods is also available from Pushkin Press. A resident of Boulder, CO, he is on the faculty in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver.

Fireside stories where guilt, distress and unforeseen illness strike a deliciously gothic note * Sunday Express *