First published 2020
This collection gathers tales from literary giants spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. Katherine Mansfield captures intimate moments of human connection. Franz Kafka explores the absurd machinery of modern life. Rudyard Kipling draws from the far reaches of empire. Nikolai Gogol reveals the bizarre underbelly of Russian society. H.P. Lovecraft conjures cosmic terror from New England shadows. Washington Irving spins American folklore into enduring myth. Edgar Allan Poe plunges into psychological darkness. Anton Chekhov finds poetry in ordinary disappointment. Mark Twain skewers human folly with razor wit. Honoré de Balzac dissects social ambition. Henry James navigates the complexities of desire and duty. Each writer brings their distinct voice to universal themes of love, loss, ambition, and mortality.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, classic-literature, anthologies, 20th-century, 19th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, intimate, lyrical, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: cosmic-horror, psychological-complexity, unreliable-narrator
Setting: New England, Russia, United States
Period: 19th Century, 20th Century
270 pages · Paperback · Independently published