Collected Stories

American author Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton achieved significant literary acclaim during her career, garnering comparisons to luminaries like Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. This collection of spine-tingling gothic tales will please fans of the genre who don’t want to sacrifice literary quality when it comes to scary stories. Included are the following stories: Death and the Woman, The Striding-Place, and The Sacrificial Altar.

This story has all 3 chapters featured on this site, containing a total of 14,378 words.