The Mournful Influence of Unperceived Shadow

PUBLICATION DETAILS

From beneath your floorboards comes the highly anticipated third anthology, inspired by “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

This famous story, published by Edgar Allan Poe in January 1843, bleeds through our popular culture still to this day, over one hundred and seventy-nine years later.

Tales Torn From the Heart features a stunning lineup of some of gothic horror’s top authors and poets. Do you dare stare into the pale blue eye?

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

• Chris Semtner, Curator, Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA | Foreword – “Retelling Poe’s Tell Tale”
• Hugh Alan “The I in the Eye”
• Jared Baker “Facts of the Case”
• Devan Barlow “The Were-Vultures’ Revenge”
• Rose Biggin “Tall Leather Teeth”
• Melanie Cossey “My Tell-Tale Confession”
• Renee Cronley “Home Is Where the Heart Is”
• Jasmine De La Paz “The Lovelorn Hearts”
• Halimah S. Dilazak “Scarlet House”
• Susan Earlam “Two Moons Tavern”
• Alyson Faye “Feathertide”
• Lori Green “Til Death”
• Xandra Harbet “Heart to Heart”
• Vincent Heselwood “The Tell Tale Her”
• Leanna Renee Hieber “Her Pale Blue Eyes”
• Maggie Nerz Iribarne “At Last, You’ve Come”
• Jackson Kuhl “The Abrupt Arrival of Lambert Baines”
• Jon Lasser “That Infinite and Lonely Street”
• Molly Likovich “For The Sake of Her Heart”
• Gregory R. Meece “The Ticking Tomb”
• Jeremy Megargee “The Best of Me”
• A.R.C. Mitra “A Murmur, Like the Sound of the Sea”
• Kurt Newton “The Red Leaf”
• HV Patterson “Unquiet Hearts”
• Mary Rajotte “The Mournful Influence of Unperceived Shadow”
• J. L. Royce “The Gardener’s Song”
• A.A. Rubin “And Still I Hear The Beating of His Heart”
• Beth Simone “Clarity”
• Kris Waldherr “How They Met Themselves”

AN EXCERPT

READER REVIEWS