While ‘Wandering Willie's Tale’, above all of Walter Scott's shorter fictions, has often been included in Gothic anthologies and period surveys, the apparently disposable pieces that appeared The Keepsake for 1829, renegades from novelist's failed Chronicles Canongate series, have received far less attention. Read unlikely context a plush Christmas gift book, ‘My Aunt Margaret's Mirror’ ‘The Ta...

Even if A Stir of Echoes (1958) has often been overshadowed by Richard Matheson’s best-known novels I Am Legend (1954) and The Shrinking Man (1956), it should be given the credit it deserves as a novel that functions both as a reflection as well as a source of intertextuality. A Stir of Echoes is rooted in the tradition of the ghost story and the American gothic, but above all, it comprises mot...