American gothic tales /

American gothic tales /

Gothic fiction by more than 40 known and unknown writers. They range from William Sansom's A Woman Seldom Found, on an encounter in Rome between a man and a woman, to Paul Bowle's Allal, on an Arab boy who switches bodies with a snake.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Plume, [1996]
Subjects:
Horror tales, American.
Gothic revival (Literature) > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • From Wieland, or The transformation
  • The legend of sleepy hollow
  • The man of adamant
  • Young Goodman Brown
  • The tartarus of maids
  • The black cat
  • The yellow wallpaper
  • The romance of certain old clothes
  • The damned thing
  • Afterward
  • The striding place
  • Death in the woods
  • The outsider
  • A rose for Emily
  • The lonesome place
  • The door
  • The lovely house
  • Allal
  • The reencounter
  • In the icebound hothouse
  • The enormous radio
  • the veldt
  • The Dachau shoe
  • The approved
  • Spiders I have known
  • Postcards from the Maginot Line
  • Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams
  • In bed one night
  • Schrödinger's cat
  • The waterworks
  • Shattered like a glass goblin
  • Human moments in World War III
  • The anatomy of desire
  • Little things
  • The temple
  • Freniere
  • A short guide to the city
  • In the penny arcade
  • The reach
  • Exchange value
  • Snow
  • The last feast of Harlequin
  • Time and again
  • Replacements
  • Spirit seizures
  • Cat in glass
  • The girl who loved animals
  • Ursus triad, later
  • The nuclear family: his talk, her teeth
  • Subsoil.