Exotic Gothic 5 Volume 1 by Danel Olson

This year the Series has gone farther distances than ever before to find authors who evolve the Gothic genre. Authors born in eleven countries contribute new fiction (or fiction never published in English) to the fifth in the Exotic Gothic series—twenty–six stories in all, split into two volumes.

A commitment was also made early to encourage gender balance in the anthology. After reading with shock how women writers are severely underrepresented in many genre anthologies the Editor asked, “Why are we cheating ourselves and our readers in this way? And how do we face our daughters if we perpetuate that unfairness?” Thirteen of the stories are written by women, and thirteen by men.

It is with great satisfaction that PS Publishing now presents what may be the most involving and affecting storytelling yet to appear in the entire Gothic Quintet . . .

CONTENTS

Danel Olson - Preface:
Deborah Biancotti - All the Lost Ones
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud - The Open Mirror
Simon Clark - L’Amour est Mort
Theodora Goss - Elena’s Egg
Anna Taborska - The Girl in the Blue Coat
Nick Antosca - Burial Grounds
Nancy A. Collins - Moonrise on Hermit Beach
D. E. Cowen & Danel Olson - Goth Thing
Camille DeAngelis - The Coroner’s Bride
Sheri Holman - The Starvation Experiment
Joyce Carol Oates - A Game of Draughts
Stephen Susco - Foodface
Gemini Wahhaj - The Girl Next Door