The Wind at Midnight

Written by Georgia Wood Pangborn

Dust Jacket illustration by Paul Lowe

Limited to 600 copies

ISBN: 1-899562-76-1; xx + 179pp; Hardcover; Published August 20, 1999

Original Price: C$52.00 / US$39.50 / £24.50

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Prior to her withdrawal from literary life in the 1920s, Georgia Wood Pangborn (1872–1955) was perhaps one of the finest American supernaturalists of her day. Her writing in the genre was compared, during her heyday, with that of Algernon Blackwood, and occurred at a time when Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories were giving way to more psychological terrors. Pangborn's tales avoid predictability, depending instead on subtlety and style, and her work has worn well over the decades, in common with the finest supernatural tales. For a time she was a household name; yet when she ceased writing, her fame quickly evaporated, leaving her work almost completely forgotten today.

In The Wind at Midnight, Jessica Amanda Salmonson has collected together all of Pangborn's significant writings in the field of the supernatural. The stories reverse many of the conventional clichés of the terror tale, with women and children figuring prominently; perhaps, as Salmonson suggests, this was a response to those other ghost stories, so common at the time, in which women seemed not to figure at all. There is also a recurring theme of madness and suicide, of abandonment and despair, which Salmonson argues may be behind the silence and hostility she encountered when trying to obtain information about Pangborn from the author's family.

Contents:
  • Preface by Patricia A. McKillip
  • "The Uncanny Stories of Georgia Wood Pangborn" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • The Wall of Winds
  • The Intruder
  • The Lady Senbtes
  • The Ring of the Great Wish
  • The Gray Collie
  • The Watch of the Gods
  • Bixby's Bridge
  • The Walk on the Moor
  • The Rescue
  • The Wood of Dreams
  • Cara
  • Andy McPherson's House
  • The Dead Maids and the Daffodils
  • The Ghost Flower
  • The Fourth Watch
  • Earth-Bound
  • Doubting Castle
  • The Haunted Coat
  • The Ghost in the Snow
  • The Ice Storm
  • Broken Glass
  • A Dispensation
  • The Substitute
  • An October's Verse
  • The Twilight Gardener