THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOTH

Twenty-five Women from the worlds of Horror Fiction and Illustration drag the blackened heart of Classic Gothic Horror out into the open, sculpting a sleeker, fiercer beast and recasting the legacy of our original Gothmothers in a chilling contemporary light.

Within the walls of an arcane modern art gallery...into the blackest burrows of the animal kingdom...tableside at the world's last restaurant on the eve of the apocalypse...from the deep American South to the depths of a hostile sea, a cornucopia of nightmares awaits.

IN SOMNIO features eighteen vibrant, unique stories; each brings a new perspective to our inherent love of Gothic Horror and what those vital elements of terror still have to tell us today.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Antonia Rachel Ward

J.A. Bryson - Senescence

Mary Rajotte - The Blight of Black Creek

Aster S. Monroe - Trespass

S.E. Zeller - Wild Thing

Julie Hutchings - The Beach

Helen Whistberry - Needs Must

Taylor Jordan Pitts - What We Sow

A.P. Howell - Always an After

Elou Carroll - Ghost Light

Barbara A. Barnett - Self Storage

Harklin Ashe - Nude in Repose #37

Lauren Bolger - Junk Soul

Rachel Unger - We Named You After Her

Jessica Lévai - Silver Hands Against the Devil

M. Lopes da Silva - A House Without Ghosts

Victoria Nations - The Reaching Sea

Briana Una McGuckin - After the Apples

Lin Darrow - The Burning of Langston Flare's Haunted

Masquerade and Seafood Restaurant Experience (For Love)

Illustrated by:

Sally Cantirino - cover artist

Daniella Batsheva

Marisa Bruno

Echo Echo

Claire L. Smith

Tammsle