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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents: 13 Tales of New American Gothic by John C. Boland, Shelley Costa, Steve Lindley, Jean Femling, Joyce Carol Oates, Terry Black, Elaine Menge, Rhys Bowen, O'Neil De Noux, Martin Limón

ezravasq's review

4.0

This is a very enjoyable collection of ghost and weird stories that span several genres, everything from paranormal/science fiction to historical mystery. The highlights for me were "The Wall" by Rhys Bowen and "Ten Thousand Cold Nights," by James Lincoln Warren. The latter is a Japanese themed ghost story that, while not a historical mystery per se, incorporates a good deal of Japanese history.

"The Gorilla Murders," by O'Neil De Noux, also deserves honorable mention--a historical mystery set in New Orleans. It pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue."