Unexplained Circumstance

In creating this anthology, we attempt to showcase a wide range authors from different backgrounds and their various approaches to using the supernatural and paranormal in their writing, ranging from the Gothic tradition with Elizabeth Gaskell to the modernist era of disillusionment of H.P. Lovecraft.

Contents: The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell The Haunted Palace, Edgar Allan Poe

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving The Laughing Ghost, P'ou Song Lin

The Devils of the Ocean, P'ou Song Lin The Monkey's Paw, W. W. Jacobs The Rabbi's Bogey-Man, Gertrude Landa The Haunted Orchard, Richard Le Gallienne An Egyptian Cigarette, Kate Chopin The Tarn of Sacrifice, Algernon Blackwood Dagon, H. P. Lovecraft