Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales

"Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" — GIRLS' LIFEA 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. Lungewater / Joan AikenMorgan Roehmar's boys / Vivian Vande VeldeWatch and wake / M.T. AndersonForbidden brides of the faceless slaves in the nameless house of the night of dread desire / Neil GaimanThe dead and the moonstruck / Caitlin R. KiernanHave no fear, crumpot is here! / Barry YourgrauStone tower / Janni Lee SimnerThe prank / Gregory MaguireWriting on the wall / Celia ReesEndings / Garth Nix