Penumbra debuts.

Gertrude Atherton, ca. 1906–12.
Library of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Div.

S. T. Joshi, known for his work on H. P. Lovecraft, recently announced the debut of Penumbra, a new annual journal on weird fiction that features fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The first issue includes a reprint of Gertrude Atherton's "The Caves of Death" (1886) and articles such as the following:

• "The Terror of Solitude": The Supernatural Fiction of Edith Wharton
by John C. Tibbetts

• Finding Sherlock Holmes in Weird Fiction by Nancy Holder

• "The Weird Dominions of the Infinite": Edgar Allan Poe and the Scientific Gothic by Sorina Higgins

Save Edith Wharton's Home.

The Mount, the beloved Massachusetts home of Edith Wharton, faces possible foreclosure unless sufficient support is received by the end of the month. Read more about it here.

Happy birthday, Edith Wharton.

Edith Wharton—author of Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and The Age of Innocence; friend of Henry James; and a relative of mystery author Frances Newbold Noyes Hart—was born today in 1862. She died in 1937.

She received the Cross of the Legion of Honor from the French government for her considerable relief work during World War I and the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence in 1921. Among her many works are a number of ghost stories such as "The Fullness of Life," "The Moving Finger," "Mr. Jones," "The Triumph of Night," and "Pomegranate Seed." New York Review of Books Classics has recently issued The New York Stories of Edith Wharton.