American gothic
Subtitle: an anthology from Salem witchcraft to H.P. Lovecraft
By: edited by Charles L. Crow
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9780470659809; 9780470659793
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Literary collections; American Horror tales; Supernatural; Fear; American literature; American Fantasy literature
Notes: Previous edition: American gothic : an anthology, 1787-1916. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 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); title: A surprising account of the discovery of a lady ... / Abraham Panther; title: Letter IX (from letters from an American farmer) / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813); title: Somnambulism / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810); title: The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving (1783-1859); title: Idiosyncrasies / John Neal (1793-1876); title: From The Quaker city, or, the monks of Monk Hall / George Lippard (1822-1854); title: The skeleton in armor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882); title: A struggle for life / Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850); title: Alice Doane's appeal ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864); title: 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); title: The bell tower / Herman Melville (1819-1891); title: My visitation / Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892); title: Through lane it lay, through 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); title: A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888); title: Her story ; Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921); title: The death of Halpin Frayser ; An inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?); title: The turn of the screw / Henry James (1843-1916); title: Jean-ah Poquelin / George Washington Cable (1844-1925); title: The little room / Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918); title: The foreigner / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909); title: Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin (1851-1904); title: Old woman Magoun ; Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930); title: The bell in the fog / Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948); title: Talking bones / Anonymous (folk tale); title: The sheriff's children ; The dumb witness / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932); title: The giant wisteria ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935); title: The house that was not / Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935); title: The eyes / Edith Wharton (1862-1937); title: In the court of the dragon / Robert W. Chambers (1865-1943); title: Nancy Knapp ; Barry Holden / Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950); title: Luke Havergal ; Lisette and Eileen ; The dark house ; The mill ; Souvenir ; Why he was there / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935); title: Lauth / Frank Norris (1870-1902); title: The monster / Stephen Crane (1871-1900); title: The lynching of Rube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906); title: Chinnubbie and the owl / Alexander Posey (1873 -1908); title: Samuel / Jack London (1876-1916); title: The outsider / H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).