Original sentence: Colonial American Gothic writers were particularly concerned with frontier and wilderness anxiety.Poe did so through the window of a diseased and depressive fascination with the morose, Irving with the keen charm of a masterful storyteller, and Hawthorne with familial bonds to past abominations such as the Salem Witch Trials
Edited sentence: Early American Gothic writers were particularly concerned with frontier wilderness anxiety and the lasting effects of a Puritanical society.Poe accomplished through the window of a diseased and depressive fascination with the morose, Irving with the keen charm of a masterful storyteller, and Hawthorne with familial bonds to past abominations like the Salem Witch Trials which he addresses in "Custom House"