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He had a plan - it's just that this wasn't it. The summer of 1993 was supposed to be a quiet one, getting ready for a move from remote Northern California to the Midwest for graduate school, but a phone call changed that plan. He found himself instead in LA, helping a cousin house-sit a luxurious hilltop home and becoming captivated with the woman next door, a bisexual Wiccan with an art gallery and a black BMW. And a former lesbian lover whose jealousy turned to fury that summer. A choice he found safely intriguing in May had unravelled into near-chaos by midsummer as the apparent...

Beautiful young Emily DOrville lives a peaceful existence in the French countryside with her loving parents. But when tragedy strikes and leaves her an orphan, Emily is separated from her true love Angereau and imprisoned in the Castle of Gorgono, her sinister uncles fortress in the Apennine Mountains. Can Emily escape the horrors of Gorgono, or will she fall victim to Signor Androssi and his murderous friends? And what is the mystery of the horrifying picture that hangs in a locked chamber, shrouded in a black veil?

First published in 1802, The Veiled Picture is a chapbook...

The poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England and was an important forerunner of the Romantic period and a major influence on the development of the Gothic novel. Yet, despite the unquestioned significance of the Graveyard Poets, critical attention has been scant, and until now there has been no critical anthology of their works.
"The Graveyard School: An Anthology" features works by thirty-three authors and provides a broad and comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of Graveyard...