Edited by Danel Olson

Dust Jacket illustration by Uncredited

Limited to 350 copies

ISBN: 1-55310-099-9; x + 306pp; Hardcover; Published Sep 30, 2007

Original Price: C$49.00 / US$49.00 / £29.00.

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In the old Gothic, nothing scared so much as a touch of the cold and the foreign in the midst of the familiar, for it begged the question, 'What has become of the world we knew?' — The twenty-three stories in Exotic Gothic ask this question differently: 'What has become of the world we know?' These stories are concerned with the here and now, and demonstrate how today's international Gothicists are reimagining the traditional setting, mood, and characters of their British, German, and French predecessors.

You will not be safe here as you roam the world and travel from Tanzania to Zanzibar, Mali, Sumatra, Japan, Iraq, Russia, Australia, England, Scotland, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, America, and Canada. On this tour, the uncanny is everywhere. Isn't that the attraction?

Featuring stories by Nicholas Royle, Thomas Tessier, John Bushore, Lucy Taylor, David Wellington, Peter Crowther, Neil Gaiman, Sean Meriwether, William F. Nolan, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ilsa J. Bick, Brian Hodge, Farnoosh Moshiri, Douglas Unger, T.C. Boyle, Nancy A. Collins, James Cortese, Mark Steensland and Rick Hautala, Thomas Ligotti, Kyle Marffin, Joyce Carol Oates, and Barbara Roden.

First volume in the EXOTIC GOTHIC series (begun by Ash Tree Press and later continued by PS Publishing).

Contents:

• In the Desert of Deserts by Thomas Tessier
• Extinctions in Paradise by Brian Hodge
• Mbo by Nicholas Royle
• Waiting for the 400 by Kyle Marffin
• Rustle by Peter Crowther
• Purity by Thomas Ligotti
• Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire by Neil Gaiman
• The Pumpkin Child by Nancy A. Collins
• The Wide, Wide Sea by Barbara Roden
• The Man Who Stalked Hyde by William F. Nolan
• Going Native by John Bushore
• Bones by Ilsa J. Bick
• The Butsudan by Lucy Taylor
• Preface: The Gothic Takes a Holiday by Danel Olson
• Twilight in the Green Zone by David Wellington
• Jarkman at the Othergates by Terry Dowling
• Skin of My Soul by Sean Meriwether
• The House by the Bulvarnoye Koltso by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Against Gravity (excerpt) by Farnoosh Moshiri
• Tide Pool by Douglas Unger
• The Black and White Sisters by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Ever After by James Cortese
• Lovecraft's Pillow by Rick Hautala and Mark Steensland
• Beasts (excerpt) by Joyce Carol Oates