Includes bibliographical references (p. [478]-479) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- An account of a beautiful young lady / 'Abraham Panther' -- Somnambulism / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- Idiosyncrasies / John Neal (1793-1876) -- from The Quaker city ; or, the monks of Monk Hall / George Lippard (1822-54) -- The skeleton in armor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) -- from The prairie / James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) -- A struggle for life / Henry Clay Lewis (1825-50) -- 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 (1809-49) -- Alice Doane's appeal ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) -- The bell-tower / Herman Melville (1819-91) -- The wildermings / Alice Cary (1820-71) -- Behind a mask : or, a woman's power / Louisa May Alcott (1832-88) -- The amber gods / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) -- Through lane it lay, through bramble ; 'Tis so appalling, it exhilarates ; 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch ; The soul has bandaged moments ; Did you ever stand in a cavern's mouth ; One need not be a chamber , to be haunted ; What mystery pervades a well! ; In winter in my room / Emily Dickinson (1830-86) -- from Life on the Mississippi / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) -- The foreigner / Sara Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- Old woman Magoun ; Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) -- The turn of the screw / Henry James (1843-1916) -- Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin (1851-1904) -- Po' Sandy ; The Sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- Jean-ah Poquelin / George Washington Cable (1844-1925) -- The monster / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- The death of Halpin Frayser / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) -- Lauth / Frank Norris (1870-1902) -- The giant wisteria / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- from The sport of the gods / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Luke Havergal ; Lisette and Eileen ; The dark house ; The mill ; Souvenir ; Why he was there / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935) -- The ghostly kiss / Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) -- The eyes / Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Samuel / Jack London (1876-1916).
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