The gothic is a dark mirror of the fears and taboos of a culture. This collection brings together a dozen chilling tales of the nineteenthcentury American South with nonfiction texts that illuminate them and ground them in their historical context. The tales are from writers with enduring worldwide reputations Edgar Allan Poe and others whose work will be unknown to most readers. Indeed one of the stories has not been reprinted for nearly a hundred years and little is known about its author E