This installment in the Dedalus European Fantasy series offers a collection of stories with haunted houses, roads to nowhere, hanged men who come to life, and cannibalism. The more contemporary of the stories are closest to the modern definition of fantasy, while the older lean more toward Gothic, but they all have a place in the collection. Eça de Queirós' story is (unsurprisingly) one of my favorites, but I also found a couple of new writers who I will be looking out for in the future. Some of these writers are translated into English for the first time here, so unfortunately this may be all that can be found for those of us who don't read Portuguese. ( )