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"I am most certainly haunted." - JT Seate
Haunted Are These Houses is an anthology of 32 gothic poems & short stories edited by Eddie Generous & Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi. I had read some of these authors before, but a lot of them were new to me. I was introduced to writers I would love to check out more from, such as Moira Gillen, Catherine Cavendish, Erika Hogan, and more. I was very happy to see so many women horror writers in this book, and it was very refreshing.
This book is a blend of current and classic stories and poems, and I struggled through some of the older ones. I've avoided a lot of classic authors since college, so it was jarring at times to have them mixed on with the newer stories at times. This is my personal problem, though, and not a fault of the book.
My top 5 stories and poems were Our Room of Walking Coffins by Stephanie Wytovich, The Brothers by Erin MacNair, In the Darkened Hours by Bruce Boston, The Call of the House of Usher by Annie Neugebauer, and Inheritance by Christina Sng. Annie Neugebauer was the only one of these writers I had read before, and I'm always happy to find new horror writers. I didn't care for some of the other stories in the anthology, and it ended up being hit or miss for me.
Overall, I enjoyed this anthology, and
Haunted Are These Houses is a good survey of gothic literature. If this is something you're interested in exploring, this anthology is a great place to start.
Haunted Are These Houses is an anthology of 32 gothic poems & short stories edited by Eddie Generous & Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi. I had read some of these authors before, but a lot of them were new to me. I was introduced to writers I would love to check out more from, such as Moira Gillen, Catherine Cavendish, Erika Hogan, and more. I was very happy to see so many women horror writers in this book, and it was very refreshing.
This book is a blend of current and classic stories and poems, and I struggled through some of the older ones. I've avoided a lot of classic authors since college, so it was jarring at times to have them mixed on with the newer stories at times. This is my personal problem, though, and not a fault of the book.
My top 5 stories and poems were Our Room of Walking Coffins by Stephanie Wytovich, The Brothers by Erin MacNair, In the Darkened Hours by Bruce Boston, The Call of the House of Usher by Annie Neugebauer, and Inheritance by Christina Sng. Annie Neugebauer was the only one of these writers I had read before, and I'm always happy to find new horror writers. I didn't care for some of the other stories in the anthology, and it ended up being hit or miss for me.
Overall, I enjoyed this anthology, and
Haunted Are These Houses is a good survey of gothic literature. If this is something you're interested in exploring, this anthology is a great place to start.
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