Review: Dara Downey, American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age Ann Patten   Critics of American gothic fiction often have noted something exceptional about U.S. horror.  A common position holds that because the U.S. lacks the long history of Europe – we have no depraved nobles, no dungeons with chains, no real turreted castles … Continue reading Review: Dara Downey, American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age