Egaeus Press Gothic Anthology

It is our intention to follow Gothic fiction back, back to a time long before Stoker, before its absorption into the polite world of Victorian chit-chat and theatre society, back to a time when no respectable bibliophile would allow anything of the sort to throw shade upon their collections. This was a literature of madness and terminal melancholy, of alcoholism and laudanum addiction, and of an early grave. We aren't terribly interested in vampires at all. We're looking for more primal horrors. We're looking for cursed castles, hidden passages, veiled paintings and messages from beyond the threshold of death. We want pits, pendulums, despots and instruments of torture. Give us murders most gruesome, lunacy and diseases of the most miserable kinds. Let's show those respectable Victorian appropriators, not to mention many of our modern readers, just what Gothic fiction once was, and can be again. Though we are not necessarily looking for 'period' pieces, we are looking for work that exists within, if you will, a hermetically sealed Gothic environment, more or less shorn of the stuff of our modern world, as such, veering perhaps into the fantastical. But please, surprise us!I

Country of Publication & Year Established

United Kingdom

Established in 2023