Exotic Gothic 5 Volume 2 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
Terry Dowling - The Sleepover
Kola Boof - The Sweet Virgin Meat
Lily Herne - XYZ
John Llewellyn Probert - The Secondary Host
Berumen & Coyote - El Nahual
Carlos Hernandez - More Than Pigs and Rosaries Can Give
Thana Niveau - Xibalba
Anil Menon - Haveli
Charu Nivedita - Diabolically Yours
Deborah Noyes - Juicing the Knife
Reggie Oliver - He Who Beheld the Darkness
Paul Park - The Statue in the Garden
Lucy Taylor - Djinn’s Blood