American Midnight: Tales of the Dark (Pushkin Collection)
Laird Hunt
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
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**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.**
Laird Hunt's American Midnight Tales of the Dark is a selection of short stories from a variety of authors in horror literature.
I was happy to have the opportunity to read the selection as some I was already familiar with and others were new to me. As with every short story collection I seem to have read, I definitely had stories I liked better than others.
Overall, I felt the selection was well chosen and that any horror or ghost story fan could find at least one story that appealed to them.
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