The anthology mostly consisted of a large onslaught of mediocre stories, and only one of them was even a little scary. Most of these stories were simply horror, and incessantly bland horror at that. It's called 'Gothic', but most of the stories here really aren't, the exceptions being Watch and Wake, Neil Gaiman's story, and The Dead and the Moonstruck. This was, like most anthologies, a mixed bag. Have no fear, crumpot is here! / Barry Yourgrau Morgan Roehmar's boys / Vivian Vande Veldeįorbidden brides of the faceless slaves in the nameless house of the night of dread desire / Neil Gaiman Enter the world of GOTHIC!, a celebration of the literary form made famous by such writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. The daughter of a sorcerer fighting to free her lover - and her will - from sinister bonds. Here too are a flamboyant young novelist in search of a subject more compelling than his own eerie existence and Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampireĬontemplating his end, and a fanged brat who drains the patience of a bumbling teenage boy. a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. "Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" - GIRLS' LIFEĪ lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant.
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