American Midnight : Weird Tales of the Dark

Author(s): Authors, X Various
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 08/10/2026,
Pagination: 224 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781805331186,
Description:

A

collection of chilling tales from the dark heart of American

literature

A masquerade ball cut short by a

mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat

howling in the night: these ten tales are some of the most strange and

unsettling in all of American literature, filled with unforgettable imagery

and simmering with tension. From Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson,

Nathaniel Hawthorne to Zora Neale Hurston, the authors of these classics of

supernatural suspense have inspired generations of writers to explore the

dark heart of the land of the free.

The stories in this

collection have been selected and introduced by Laird Hunt, an author of

seven acclaimed novels which explore the shadowy corners of American

history.

Contains:

'The Masque of the Red

Death', Edgar Allan Poe
'Young Goodman Brown', Nathaniel

Hawthorne
'The Eyes', Edith Wharton
'The Mask', Robert

Chambers
'Home', Shirley Jackson
'A Ghost Story', Mark

Twain
'Spunk', Zora Neale Hurston
'The Yellow Wallpaper',

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
'An Itinerant House', Emma Frances

Dawson

Laird Hunt is an

American writer and translator. He has written seven novels, including

Neverhome, which was a New York Times Book

Review Editor's Choice selection, an IndieNext selection, winner

of the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and The Bridge prize, and a

finalist for the Prix Femina Étranger. His In the House in the Dark

of the Woods is also available from Pushkin Press. A resident of

Boulder, CO, he is on the faculty in the creative writing PhD program at the

University of Denver.