Fourteen fanciful stories by a rediscovered luminary of Southern literature William Gilmore Simms--a nineteenth-century American writer whose popularity once rivaled that of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville--achieved his greatest notoriety for such widely read novels as Guy Rivers, The Yemasse, and The Partisan. He also penned an assortment of short stories that, though not nearly as well known, are now regarded by...