American Midnight : Weird Tales of the Dark

Author: Laird Hunt

Anthologies (non-poetry)

Published on 8 October 2026 by Pushkin Press (Pushkin Press Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
198 x 129 | 0g

'Fireside stories where guilt, distress and unforeseen illness strike a deliciously gothic note' Sunday Express

A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a chilling nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling into the night: the ten stories in this collection are some of the most strange and uncanny in all American literature.

Selected by acclaimed novelist Laird Hunt, these weird tales by writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Zora Neale Hurston, offer a terrifying glimpse into the dark heart of the land of the free.

Contains:

'The Masque of the Red Death', Edgar Allan Poe
'Young Goodman Brown', Nathaniel Hawthorne
'The Eyes', Edith Wharton
'The Mask', Robert Chambers
'Home', Shirley Jackson
'A Ghost Story', Mark Twain
'Spunk', Zora Neale Hurston
'The Yellow Wallpaper', Charlotte Perkins Gilman
'An Itinerant House', Emma Frances Dawson

Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand picked from around the globe.

Laird Hunt is an American writer and translator. He has written seven novels, including Neverhome, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, an IndieNext selection, winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and The Bridge prize, and a finalist for the Prix Femina Étranger. His In the House in the Dark of the Woods is also available from Pushkin Press. A resident of Boulder, CO, he is on the faculty in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver.