In 2006, I floated a concept I created called Exotic Gothic to over seventy publishers around the world. It was an experiment in growing neo-Gothic stories: to keep one or more traditional tropes of the old genre in each new story, but add much that's culturally different, and set them all outside of their original birthlands of the UK, Germany, and France. Since then the series has had four volumes, the first three from Ash-Tree Press of Canada (which with regret was unable to produce the fourth due to unforeseen personal commitments and time constraints), and the current from England's PS Publishing (whose name to carry the series was suggested by many of the writers within this all-new collection). Exotic Gothic 2 was a Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, and Exotic Gothic 3 a Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Award Finalist. Many of the series' harrowing and sensual tales now reappear the following year in Best Of and themed collections (PS Publishing website).
Exotic Gothic 5 : Volume Two
Danel P. Olson
(editor),
Harrogate
:
PS Publishing
,
2013
7042899
2013
anthology
short story
Exotic Gothic 3 : Strange Visitations
Danel P. Olson
(editor),
Ashcroft
:
Ash Tree Press
,
2009
Z1675067
2009
anthology
short story
horror
Exotic Gothic 2 : New Tales of Taboo
Danel P. Olson
(editor),
Ashcroft
:
Ash Tree Press
,
2008
Z1813028
2008
anthology
short story
horror
Exotic Gothic 4 : A Postscripts Anthology
no.
28-29
July
2012
Z1916877
2012
anthology
horror
The fourth release in the Exotic Gothic series (and the first to be published by PS Publishing), this edition contains stories by 25 authors from nine countries - Australia, Canada, England, Fiji, Italy, Malaysia, Russia, USA, and Wales. Three of these authors are also members of indigenous nations, tribes or peoples (Abenaki, Métis, and Ojibway). None of the stories have been previously published.
