American Gothic Tales
Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, Sherwood Anderson, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, August Derleth, E.B. White, Shirley Jackson, Paul Bowles, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Goyen, John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Robert Coover, Ursula K. Le Guin, E.L. Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Don DeLillo, John L'Heureux, Raymond Carver, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Steven Millhauser, Stephen King, Charles Johnson, John Crowley, Thomas Ligotti, Breece D'J Pancake, Lisa Tuttle, Melissa Pritchard, Nancy Etchemendy, Bruce McAllister, Kathe Koja, Barry N. Malzberg, Katherine Dunn, Nicholson Baker
4.08 · 12 ratings · Published: 01 Dec 1996
Added to these stories of the past are new ones that explore the wounded worlds of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Raymond Carver, and more than twenty other wonderful contemporary writers. This impressive collection reveals the astonishing scope of the gothic writer’s subject matter, style, and incomparable genius for manipulating our emotions and penetrating our dreams. With Joyce Carol Oates’s superb introduction, American Gothic Tales is destined to become the standard one-volume edition of the genre that American writers, if they didn’t create it outright, have brought to its chilling zenith.
rom Wieland, or The transformation / Charles Brockden Brown --
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
The man of adamant / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The Tartarus of maids / Herman Melville --
The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe --
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James --
The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce --
Afterward / Edith Wharton --
The striding place / Gertrude Atherton --
Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson --
The outsider / H.P. Lovecraft --
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
The lonesome place / August Derleth --
The door / E.B. White --
The lovely house / Shirley Jackson --
Allal / Paul Bowles --
The reencounter / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
In the icebound hothouse / William Goyen --
The enormous radio / John Cheever --
The veldt / Ray Bradbury --
The Dachau shoe / W.S. Merwin --
The approved / W.S. Merwin --
Spiders I have known / W.S. Merwin --
Postcards from the Maginot Line / W.S. Merwin --
Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams / Sylvia Plath --
In bed one night / Robert Coover --
Schrödinger's cat / Ursula K. Le Guin --
The waterworks / E.L. Doctorow --
Shattered like a glass goblin / Harlan Ellison --
Human moments in World War III / Don DeLillo --
The anatomy of desire / John L'Heureux --
Little things / Raymond Carver --
The temple / Joyce Carol Oates --
Freniere (from Interview with the Vampires) / Anne Rice --
A short guide to the city / Peter Straub --
In the penny arcade / Steven Millhauser --
The reach / Stephen King --
Exchange value / Charles Johnson --
Snow / John Crowley --
The 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 --
The girl who loved animals / Bruce McAllister --
Ursus Triad, later / Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg --
(from Geek Love) The nuclear family: his talk, her teeth / Katherine Dunn --
Subsoil / Nicholson Baker
- fantasy 4
- horror 3
- gothic 3
- classics 3
- mystery 2
- spooky 2
- ghosts 2
- paranormal 2
- contemporary 1
- literary fiction 1
- supernatural 1
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- format - reader age
- anthology 3
- adult fiction 1