Gothic Short Stories | David Blair | Wordsworth Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural | Book Gothic Short Stories by David Blair. This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost-and horror-story. Some of these stories, like the haunting The Lame Priest are lost masterpieces and several have never been anthologized before.