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American fantastic tales : terror and the uncanny  Cover Image Book Book

American fantastic tales : terror and the uncanny / Peter Straub, editor.

Straub, Peter, 1943-2022 (Added Author). Straub, Peter, 1943-2022 (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 159853047X (v. 1)
  • ISBN: 9781598530476 (v. 1)
  • Physical Description: xv, 746 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Library of America, [2009]
  • Distributor: New York : Distributed in the United States by Penguin Group

Content descriptions

General Note:
Wilcox memorial.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Somnambulism: a fragment / Charles Brockden Brown -- The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- Berenice / Edgar Allan Poe -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The legend of Monte del Diablo / Bret Harte -- The moonstone mass / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow -- In dark New England days / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The black dog / Stephen Crane -- Ma'ame Pélagie / Kate Chopin -- Thurlow's Christmas story / John Kendrick Bangs -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram -- The little room / Madeline Yale Wynne -- The striding place / Gertrude Atherton -- An itinerant house / Emma Francis Dawson -- Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Grettir at Thorhall-stead / Frank Norris -- Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn -- For the blood is life / F. Marion Crawford -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White -- The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- Golden baby / Alice Brown -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Consequences / Willa Cather -- The shadowy third / Ellen Glasgow -- Absolute evil / Julian Hawthorne -- Unseen-unfeared / Francis Stevens -- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The curse of Everard Maundy / Seabury Quinn -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The jelly-fish / David H. Keller -- Mr. Arcularis / Conrad Aiken -- The black stone / Robert E. Howard -- Passing of a god / Henry S. Whitehead -- The panelled room / August Derleth -- The thing on the doorstep / H.P. Lovecraft -- Genius Loci / Clark Ashton Smith -- The cloak / Robert Bloch.
[v. 1.] From Poe to the pulps. Somnambulism: a fragment / Charles Brockden Brown -- The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- Berenice / Edgar Allan Poe -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The legend of Monte del Diablo / Bret Harte -- The moonstone mass / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow -- In dark New England days / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The black dog / Stephen Crane -- Ma'ame Pélagie / Kate Chopin -- Thurlow's Christmas story / John Kendrick Bangs -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram -- The little room / Madeline Yale Wynne -- The striding place / Gertrude Atherton -- An itinerant house / Emma Francis Dawson -- Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Grettir at Thorhall-stead / Frank Norris -- Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn -- For the blood is life / F. Marion Crawford -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White -- The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- Golden baby / Alice Brown -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Consequences / Willa Cather -- The shadowy third / Ellen Glasgow -- Absolute evil / Julian Hawthorne -- Unseen-unfeared / Francis Stevens -- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The curse of Everard Maundy / Seabury Quinn -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The jelly-fish / David H. Keller -- Mr. Arcularis / Conrad Aiken -- The black stone / Robert E. Howard -- Passing of a god / Henry S. Whitehead -- The panelled room / August Derleth -- The thing on the doorstep / H.P. Lovecraft -- Genius Loci / Clark Ashton Smith -- The cloak / Robert Bloch.
Subject: Fantasy fiction, American.
Horror tales, American.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
Genre: Horror fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Pottsville District Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Pottsville Free Public Library.

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Donated: Donated by Edward J. Donahue III in memory of LaVerne Scheibelhut Donahue
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