Dive into a menacing celebration of the master of the macabre with Masque & Maelström Volume 1, a chilling anthology that exhumes the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe and thrusts it into twenty-first-century nightmares. From haunted parlor walls to the labyrinthine corridors of a forgotten asylum, each story unspools a new terror—where love curdles into loss, shadows whisper forbidden secrets, and the line between reality and delirium collapses.This volume gathers more than thirty spine-tingling tales by award-nominated voices and rising stars in horror and dark fantasy. Whether you’re a devoted Poe scholar or a newcomer to his legacy, The Reluctant Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe offers new terrors in an atmosphere of gothic elegance—and reminds us that some graves are better left undisturbed.

Published June 2025, edited by Jessica Augustsson

Originally published in Wyld Flash – October 14, 2022