In the old Gothic, nothing scared so much as a touch of the cold and the foreign in the midst of the familiar, for it begged the question, 'What has become of the world we knew?' — The twenty-three stories in Exotic Gothic ask this question differently: 'What has become of the world we know?' These stories are concerned with the here and now, and demonstrate how today's international Gothicists are reimagining the traditional setting, mood, and characters of their British, German, and French predecessors.
You will not be safe here as you roam the world and travel from Tanzania to Zanzibar, Mali, Sumatra, Japan, Iraq, Russia, Australia, England, Scotland, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, America, and Canada. On this tour, the uncanny is everywhere. Isn't that the attraction?
Featuring stories by Nicholas Royle, Thomas Tessier, John Bushore, Lucy Taylor, David Wellington, Peter Crowther, Neil Gaiman, Sean Meriwether, William F. Nolan, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ilsa J. Bick, Brian Hodge, Farnoosh Moshiri, Douglas Unger, T.C. Boyle, Nancy A. Collins, James Cortese, Mark Steensland and Rick Hautala, Thomas Ligotti, Kyle Marffin, Joyce Carol Oates, and Barbara Roden.
First volume in the EXOTIC GOTHIC series (begun by Ash Tree Press and later continued by PS Publishing).