Ashley Reed

Nicole Ellis

Lily Prasuethsut

Peter Corkey

A blood delivery ship takes on extra weight. Mysterious words appear across a young woman's body. The door in the forest is getting harder and harder to ignore. Find a safe spot to hide and enjoy 16 tales of weird fiction--the place where science, the supernatural and the uncanny collide. In these stories, reality is never certain and peril can take a hundred forms--like the friend swinging a knife at your throat or the objects hanging in your own closet. Partake in this collection of short tales tailor-made for science fiction, fantasy and horror fans, each told in seven pages or less. You can devour each of these delectable morsels in a sitting, but be careful: they hold ugly secrets, and you are what you eat. Down We Go & Other Strange Tales includes: Down We Go - There's a trap door in the forest with stairs that lead to nowhere. Something at the bottom is calling out. Fair Game - A poacher thinks he's scored an easy kill, but the guardians of the forest have different ideas. The Bog - He has to make it across the swamp to save his sister's life. The creatures trying to stop him are all too familiar. Watch the Teeth - A young girl is suspicious of her mother's new red purse. She Watches, She Waits - These walls have ears - Jim and Sally don't realize who's listening. And more . . .

Minute Fiction Vol. 1

Down We Go & Other Strange Tales: An Anthology of Weird Flash Fiction

In the dark beneath the stairs, in the mist beyond the trees, in bubbling swamps and blackened deeps—this is where monsters lie in wait, eager to sink their teeth into the next fool who crosses their path. Or so we’re told. If you ask the monsters, huddled away from burning torches, they may see things a bit differently. Dig your claws into 24 bite-sized monster tales tailor-made for science fiction, fantasy and horror fans. From harpies to yetis, toxic terrors to red-eyed demons, each has their own story to tell—and they might not be the most frightening part of it. Where Darkness Lives & Other Monstrous Tales includes: Where Darkness Lives – A child learns what's been waiting for them in the dark for as long as they can remember. Siren Song – A life is cut tragically short by a raging beast, and the wrong person takes the blame. Harvest – The Worldbeast turned Earth into a paradise, and it only asks a small favor in return. The Spider Jar – Arachne decides there are perks to being cursed by an angry goddess. Deep Down – An explorer tries to escape his demons beneath the waves, and discovers something much worse. And many more . . .

An Anthology of Fantasy, Horror and Speculative Flash Fiction

Where Darkness Lives & Other Monstrous Tales

Jennifer Larson

Jennifer A. Williamson,

This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Current literary and cultural critical consensus seems to maintain that Americans engaged in a turn-of-the-century refutation of the sentimental mode; an analysis of 20th and 21st century narratives, however, reveals an ongoing use of sentimental expression that draws upon its ability to instruct and influence readers through their emotions. While these later narratives employ aspects of the sentimental mode, many of them also engage in a critique of the failures of the sentimental, deconstructing 19th century perspectives on race, class and gender and the ways they are promoted by sentimental ideals.

Essays in Literature, Film and Television

The Sentimental Mode

The Witch's Heart

In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice. Attending to modes of being and believing in works by Augusta Jane Evans, Harriet Jacobs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner, Reed illuminates how these writers infused the secular space of fiction with religious ideas and debates, imagining new possibilities for women's individual agency and collective action. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories.

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