American gothic tales
(1996)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/AMERICAN

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/AMERICAN Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Plume, 1996
DESCRIPTION

viii, 544 pages ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0452274893
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"A William Abrahams book."

Wieland, or the transformation / Charles Brockden Brown -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- Man of adamant, young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- Black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Romance of certain old clothes / Henry James -- Damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Striding place / Gertrude Atherton -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Outsider / H. P. Lovecraft -- Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Lonesome place / August Derleth -- Door / E. B. White -- Lovely house / Shirley Jackson -- Allal / Paul Bowles -- Reencounter / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- In the icebound hothouse / William Goyen -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Veldt / Ray Bradbury -- Dachau shoe, The approved, Spiders I have known, Postcards from the Maginot / W. S. Merwin -- Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams / Sylvia Plath

In bed one night / Robert Coover -- Schrodinger's cat / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Waterworks / E. L. Doctorow -- Shattered like a glass goblin / Harlan Ellison -- Human moments in World War III / Don DeLillo -- Anatomy of desire / John L'Heureux -- Little things / Raymond Carver -- Temple / Joyce Carol Oates -- Freniere / Anne Rice -- Short guide to the city / Peter Straub -- In the penny arcade / Steven Millhauser -- Reach / Stephen King -- Exchange value / Charles Johnson -- Snow / John Crowley -- Last feast of harlequin / Thomas Ligotti -- Time and again / Breece D'J Pancake -- Replacements / Lisa Tuttle -- Spirit seizures / Melissa Pritchard -- Cat in glass / Nancy Etchemendy -- Girl who loved animals / Bruce McAllister -- Ursus triad, later / Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg -- Nuclear family: his talk, her teeth / Katherine Dunn -- Subsoil / Nicholson Baker

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