<b>"Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" — GIRLS' LIFE</b><br><br>A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampire <br>contemplating his end, and a fanged brat who drains the patience of a bumbling teenage boy. Here too are a flamboyant young novelist in search of a subject more compelling than his own eerie existence and <br>the daughter of a sorcerer fighting to free her lover — and her will — from sinister bonds. Enter the world of GOTHIC!, a celebration of the literary form made famous by such writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. <br><br>With chilling stories by: <br>Joan Aiken <br>M. T. Anderson <br>Neil Gaiman <br>Caitlín R. Kiernan <br>Gregory Maguire <br>Garth Nix <br>Celia Rees <br>Janni Lee Simner <br>Vivian Vande Velde <br>Barry Yourgrau