two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize

or brighten up any murky day

Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend Samuel Beck are opposites in every way except in how they both keep wondering if their paths will ever cross again

When a stranger visits his father's bookstore

When she makes a connection with Riley Atkins

American Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) Geography two-time winner of the PulitzerWith handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series. As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W.