Julian Hawthorne, born in 1846, was the only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of America’s greatest writers. As a child, he had been fascinated by the supernatural, and his fiction dealt with the mysterious, the occult, and the gothic. Yet, while Julian was a prolific writer, his works fell into almost complete neglect following his death, overshadowed by the literary success of his father and scandal in his own later life. Now Jessica Amanda Salmonson has selected eight of Julian Hawthorne’s best supernatural tales, ranging from the early vampire classic, 'Ken’s Mystery' to the gothic horror of the novella 'Kildhurm’s Oak'. There is also an extensive introductory monograph by Salmonson.