Christmas Gothic Short Stories

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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 Gaskill and more. 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. Hardback, Deluxe edition, printed on silver, matt laminated, gold and silver foil stamped, embossed., 432 pages, 252000 words, 25 illustrations

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.