The following story first appeared in architect and author Ralph Adams Cram’s 1895 collection Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories. When in May, 1886, I found myself at last in Paris, I naturally determined to throw myself on the charity of an old chum of mine, Eugene Marie d’Ardeche, who had forsaken Boston a year or more […]
Ralph Adams Cram was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, known for their Gothic characteristics and inspiration. In addition to his contributions to architecture, Cram was also a talented writer of weird fiction. We’re delighted to reprint one of his classic stories, “The Dead Valley,” which was recently included in American Fantastic Tales: […]