Charles A. Gunnison 41 min read

On the magnificent slope of Tamalpais, above the changing colors of the bay, an old-world tale of Californian life and haunting beauty begins beneath the rolling Pacific fog.

Charles A. Gunnison's 1894 story is an atmospheric fantasy-horror tale of early California. Lyrical, moody, evocative of its place. Read it for a graceful period piece steeped in the beauty of the San Francisco Bay country, where a haunting romance shades into the strange and the supernatural.

In its time

Published in 1894, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

41 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).