American gothic tales

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Contents: Introduction Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), from Weiland, or The Transformation Washington Irving (1783–1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), The Man of Adamant, Young Goodman Brown Herman Melville (1819–1891), The Tartarus of Maids Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), The Black Cat Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), The Yellow Wallpaper Henry James (1843–1916), The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?), The Damned Thing Edith Wharton (1862–1937), Afterward Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), The Striding Place Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941), Death in the Woods H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), The Outsider William Faulkner (1893–1962), A Rose for Emily August Derleth (1909–1971), The Lonesome Place E. B. White (1899–1985), The Door Shirley Jackson (1919–1965), The Lovely House Paul Bowles (1910– ), Allal Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991), The Reencounter William Goyen (1915–1983), In the Icebound Hothouse John Cheever (1912–1982), The Enormous Radio Ray Bradbury (1920– ), The Veldt W. S. Merwin (1927– ), The Dachau Shoe, The Approved, Spiders I Have Known, Postcards from the Maginot Line Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Robert Coover (1932– ), In Bed One Night Ursula K. Le Guin (1929– ), Schrodinger's Cat E. L. Doctorow (1931– ), The Waterworks Harlan Ellison (1934– ), Shattered Like a Glass Goblin Don DeLillo (1936– ), Human Moments in World War III John L'Heureux (1938– ), The Anatomy of Desire Raymond Carver (1938–1988), Little Things Joyce Carol Oates (1938– ), The Temple Anne Rice (1941– ), Freniere Peter Straub (1943– ), A Short Guide to the City Steven Millhauser (1943– ), In the Penny Arcade Stephen King (1947– ), The Reach Charles Johnson (1948– ), Exchange Value John Crowley (1942– ), Snow Thomas Ligotti (1947– ), The Last Feast of Harlequin Breece D'J Pancake (1952–1979), Time and Again Lisa Tuttle (1952– ), Replacements Melissa Pritchard (1948– ), Spirit Seizures Nancy Etchemendy (1952– ), Cat in Glass Bruce McAllister (1946– ), The Girl Who Loved Animals Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg, Ursus Triad, Later Katherine Dunn, The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth Nicholson Baker (1957– ) Subsoil

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