American gothic : from Salem witchcraft to H.P. Lovecraft, an anthology /
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, [England] ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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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)