American gothic : from Salem witchcraft to H.P. Lovecraft, an anthology

American gothic : from Salem witchcraft to H.P. Lovecraft, an anthology /

The chilling creativity of the American Gothic has retained its power to attract readers since it burst onto the literary scene in the eighteenth century, yet it has been the object of serious scholarship for only a few decades. Edited by a founding member of the International Gothic Association, th...

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Other Authors: Crow, Charles L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex [England] ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
American literature.
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.
Supernatural > Literary collections.
Horror tales, American.
Fantasy literature, American.
Fear > Literary collections.
Literature.
Table of 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 Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)
  • Somnambulism: a fragment / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
  • The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving (1783-1859)
  • Idiosyncrasies / John Neal (1793-1876)
  • Alice Doane's appeal ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
  • The skeleton in armor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
  • 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)
  • From The Quaker city, or, The monks of Monk Hall / George Lippard (1822-1854)
  • A struggle for life / Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
  • My visitation / Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
  • Through lane it lay, thro' 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)
  • An inhabitant of Carcosa ; The death of Halpin Frayser / 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)
  • Désirée'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 (1865-1933)
  • 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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