Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight / Introduction: An approach to an American fantasy tradition -- Part I: Folk, tall, and weird tales: Rip Van Winkle / Ursula K. Le Guin. Feathertop / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- The Saga of Pecos Bill / Edward O'Reilly -- Rosy's journey / Louisa May Alcott -- The Yellow sign / Robert W. Chambers -- The Mysterious shadow over Innsmouth / H.P. Lovecraft -- Oh ugly bird! / Manly Wade Wellman -- The fool / David Drake -- Narrow valley / R.A. Lafferty -- Jackalope / Alan Dean Foster -- The Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Children of the corn / Stephen King -- Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight / Ursula K. Le Guin. Part II: Fantastic Americana: The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison. A ghost story / Mark Twain -- The other lodgers / Ambrose Bierce -- Ma'ame Pelagie / Kate Chopin -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet -- The valley was still / Manly Wade Wellman -- The howling man / Charles Beaumont -- Twenty-three / Avram Davidson -- We are the dead / Henry Kuttner -- Where the summer ends / Karl Edward Wagner -- Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella -- Hatrack River / Orson Scott Card -- The hero of the night / Bradley Denton -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison. Part III: Lands of enchantment and everyday life: Select critical bibliography. Michael Bishop -- The enchanted buffalo / L. Frank Baum -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The moving finger / Edith Wharton -- Slow sculpture / Theodore Sturgeon -- The coin collector / Jack Finney -- Prey / Richard Matheson -- The Geezenstacks / Fredric Brown -- Paladin of the lost hour / Harlan Ellison -- The Black ferris / Ray Bradbury -- Bed & breakfast / Gene Wolfe -- Dead run / Greg Bear -- Her pilgrim soul / Alan Brennert -- Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King -- Among the handlers / Michael Bishop -- Select critical bibliography.
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