Candle in the Attic Window

Edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles.

Gothic fiction is neither dead nor musty. Twenty-seven poems and stories bring fresh blood to the genre, while drawing from old tropes. Welcome to our little house of horrors, where a movie crew searches for a legendary missing film, a woman seeks to reunite with her dead lover, a lodger discovers something peculiar about the landlady, a tarot deck brings death, and ghosts may be cruel or benevolent. The power has gone out and all that remains is the glow of a flickering candle. Come up into the attic and uncover some secrets.

Stories and poems by: Don D’Ammassa, Jesse Bullington, James S. Dorr, Leanna Renee Hieber, Paul Jessup, Ann K. Schwader, E. Catherine Tobler, Colleen Anderson, and many more.

Contents:

• Introduction: An Open Door by Paula R. Stiles and Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• A Fixer-Upper (poem) by Amanda C. Davis
• The Seventh Picture by Orrin Grey
• Housebound by Don D'Ammassa
• Stone Dogs by Paul Jessup
• The City of Melted Iron by Bobby Cranestone
• The Shredded Tapestry by Ryan Harvey
• Obsessions (or Biting Off More Than One Can Chew) (poem) by Colleen Anderson
• Desideratum by Gina Flores
• Victorians by James S. Dorr
• New Archangel by Desmond Warzel
• The Snow Man by E. Catherine Tobler
• In His Arms in the Attic by Alexis Brooks de Vita
• The Ba-Curse (poem) by Ann K. Schwader
• Hitomi by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas
• I Tarocchi dei d'Este by Martha Hubbard
• Elizabeth on the Island by Joshua Reynolds
• Dark Epistle by Jim Blackstone
• Broken Notes (poem) by Maria Mitchell
• The Malcontents (poem) by Mary E. Choo
• Liminal Medicine by Jesse Bullington
• At the Doorstep by Leanna Renee Hieber
• Frozen Souls by Sarah Hans
• The Forgotten Ones (poem) by Mary Cook
• Nine Nights by T. S. Bazelli
• Vodka Attack! by Meddy Ligner
• The Ascent by Berit K. N. Ellingsen
• Nightmare (poem) by Wenona Napolitano
• About the Anthologists