Julian Hawthorne 4 hr 5 min read

The marvelous, the author argues, feeds an appetite of the mind that neither fact nor human nature can satisfy, a preface to a gathering of eerie and fantastical tales.

Julian Hawthorne's 1879 collection, by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, gathers atmospheric fantasy and horror stories. Moody, imaginative, well-crafted. Read it for supernatural tales in the family tradition, the haunting title story among them, that defend and indulge the appetite for wonder and the marvelous.

In its time

Published in 1879, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 5 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).