Horror Various Authors: Shapes that Haunt the Dusk. v1. 14 Aug 2025

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“The writers of American short stories surpass in nothing so much as in their handling of those filmy textures which clothe the vague shapes of the borderland between experience and illusion.”
( — William Dean Howells, Introduction)

With a diverse range of narratives united by a common thread of darkness, Shapes that Haunt the Dusk offers a timeless exploration of fear, the uncanny, and the chilling beauty of the American gothic tradition. Do you dare to venture into the shadows?

This book is from the extensive “Harper's Novelettes” series. The stories in these collections cover a wide range of topics, often reflecting the social and cultural landscape of their time.

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List of stories:
(NOTE: story omitted due to copyright restrictions — “A Christmas Child” by Georg Schock / Katharine Loose Riegel ~ 1877 – 1961)

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Edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden

The White Sleep of Auber Hurn –
by Richard Rice (? – ?) fl early 1900’s

In Tenebras –
by Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911)

The Little Room –
by Madeline Yale Wynne (1847 – 1918)

The Bringing of the Rose –
by Harriet Lewis Bradley (1852 – 1937)

Perdita –
by Hildegarde Hawthorne (1871 – 1952)

At La Glorieuse –
by M. E. M. Davis (1844 – 1909)

A Faded Scapular –
by F. D. Millet (1846 – 1912)

At the Hermitage –
by E. Levi Brown (? – ?) fl 1880’s

The Reprisal –
by H. W. McVickar (1860 – 1905)

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First published in 1907.
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