THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOTH
Twenty-five Women from the worlds of Horror Fiction and Illustration drag the blackened heart of Classic Gothic Horror out into the open, sculpting a sleeker, fiercer beast and recasting the legacy of our original Gothmothers in a chilling contemporary light.
Within the walls of an arcane modern art gallery...into the blackest burrows of the animal kingdom...tableside at the world's last restaurant on the eve of the apocalypse...from the deep American South to the depths of a hostile sea, a cornucopia of nightmares awaits.
IN SOMNIO features eighteen vibrant, unique stories; each brings a new perspective to our inherent love of Gothic Horror and what those vital elements of terror still have to tell us today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Antonia Rachel Ward
J.A. Bryson - Senescence
Mary Rajotte - The Blight of Black Creek
Aster S. Monroe - Trespass
S.E. Zeller - Wild Thing
Julie Hutchings - The Beach
Helen Whistberry - Needs Must
Taylor Jordan Pitts - What We Sow
A.P. Howell - Always an After
Elou Carroll - Ghost Light
Barbara A. Barnett - Self Storage
Harklin Ashe - Nude in Repose #37
Lauren Bolger - Junk Soul
Rachel Unger - We Named You After Her
Jessica Lévai - Silver Hands Against the Devil
M. Lopes da Silva - A House Without Ghosts
Victoria Nations - The Reaching Sea
Briana Una McGuckin - After the Apples
Lin Darrow - The Burning of Langston Flare's Haunted
Masquerade and Seafood Restaurant Experience (For Love)
Illustrated by:
Sally Cantirino - cover artist
Daniella Batsheva
Marisa Bruno
Echo Echo
Claire L. Smith
Tammsle
