Previous edition: American gothic : an anthology, 1787-1916. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The trial of G.B. ; The trial of Martha Carrier ; A notable exploit, wherein, dux faemina facti (The narrative of Hannah Dustan) / Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- A surprising account of the discovery of a lady ... / Abraham Panther -- Letter IX (from letters from an American farmer) / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) -- Somnambulism / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- Idiosyncrasies / John Neal (1793-1876) -- From The Quaker city, or, the monks of Monk Hall / George Lippard (1822-1854) -- The skeleton in armor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A struggle for life / Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850) -- Alice Doane's appeal ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Hop-frog ; The cask of Amontillado ; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar ; The fall of the house of Usher ; The raven ; The city in the sea ; Ulalume ; Annabel Lee ; Dream-land / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- The bell tower / Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- My visitation / Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) -- Through lane it lay, through bramble ; I felt a funeral, in my brain ; 'Tis so appalling, it exhilarates ; The soul has bandaged moments ; One need not be a chamber to be haunted ; 'Twas like a maelstrom, with a notch ; If I may have it, when it's dead ; What mystery pervades a well! / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) -- Her story ; Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) -- The death of Halpin Frayser ; An inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) -- The turn of the screw / Henry James (1843-1916) -- Jean-ah Poquelin / George Washington Cable (1844-1925) -- The little room / Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918) -- The foreigner / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin (1851-1904) -- Old woman Magoun ; Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) -- The bell in the fog / Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) -- Talking bones / Anonymous (folk tale) -- The sheriff's children ; The dumb witness / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- The giant wisteria ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- The house that was not / Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) -- The eyes / Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- In the court of the dragon / Robert W. Chambers (1865-1943) -- Nancy Knapp ; Barry Holden / Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) -- Luke Havergal ; Lisette and Eileen ; The dark house ; The mill ; Souvenir ; Why he was there / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Lauth / Frank Norris (1870-1902) -- The monster / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- The lynching of Rube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Chinnubbie and the owl / Alexander Posey (1873 -1908) -- Samuel / Jack London (1876-1916) -- The outsider / H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).
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