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Title:

American fantastic tales : terror and the uncanny from the 1940s to now / Peter Straub, editor.

Publisher:

Library of America,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xv, 713 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Horror tales, American.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.

Other Authors:

Straub, Peter, 1943-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The Dial tone / Benjamin Percy. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- The mysteries of the Joy Rio / Tennessee Williams -- The refugee / Jane Rice -- Mr. Lupescu / Anthony Boucher -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Midnight / Jack Snow -- Torch Song / John Cheever -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- The circular valley / Paul Bowles -- I'm scared / Jack Finney -- The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov -- The April witch / Ray Bradbury -- Black country / Charles Beaumont -- Trace / Jerome Bixby -- Where the woodbine twineth / Davis Grubb -- Nightmare / Donald Wandrei -- I have no mouth, and I must scream / Harlan Ellison -- Prey / Richard Matheson -- The events at Poroth Farm / T.E.D. Klein -- Hanka / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Linnaeus forgets / Fred Chappell -- Novelty / John Crowley -- Mr. Fiddlehead / Jonathan Carroll -- Family / Joyce Carol Oates -- The last feast of Harlequin / Thomas Ligotti -- A short guide to the city / Peter Straub -- The general who is dead / Jeff VanderMeer --That feeling, you can only say what it is in French / Stephen King -- Sea Oak / George Saunders -- The long hall on the top floor / Caitlin Kiernan -- Nocturne / Thomas Tessier -- The God of Dark Laughter / Michael Chabon -- Pop art / Joe Hill -- Pansu / Poppy Z. Brite -- Dangerous laughter / Steven Millhauser -- The chambered fruit / M. Rickert -- The wavering knife / Brian Evenson -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- Pat Moore / Tim Powers -- The little stranger / Gene Wolfe -- Dial tone / Benjamin Percy.

Series:

Library of America ; 197

ISBN:

1598530488 (alk. paper)
9781598530483 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)311777129

LCCN:

2009927074

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)