American Gothic TalesPenguin, 1 dec 1996 - 560 pagina's This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers. Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. In showing us the gothic vision—a world askew where mankind’s forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawless—Joyce Carol Oates includes Henry James’s “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Herman Melville’s horrific tale of factory women, “The Tartarus of Maids,” and Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” which are rarely collected and appear together here for the first time. 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 18601935 The Yellow Wallpaper | 71 |
10 | 253 |
W S Merwin 1927 The Dachau Shoe The Approved | 278 |
Sylvia Plath 19321963 Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams | 286 |
Robert Coover 1932 In Bed One Night | 301 |
Doctorow 1931 The Waterworks | 312 |
Don DeLillo 1936 Human Moments in World War III | 325 |
19 | 379 |
Charles Johnson 1948 Exchange Value | 398 |
Henry James 18431916 The Romance of Certain | 400 |
John Crowley 1942 Snow | 406 |
Thomas Ligotti 1947 The Last Feast of Harlequin | 420 |
Breece DJ Pancake 19521979 Time and Again | 455 |
Melissa Pritchard 1948 Spirit Seizures | 475 |
Nancy Etchemendy 1952 Cat in Glass | 486 |
John LHeureux 1938 The Anatomy of Desire | 339 |
Joyce Carol Oates 1938 The Temple | 346 |
Peter Straub 1943 A Short Guide to the City | 358 |
Steven Millhauser 1943 In The Penny Arcade | 369 |
Stephen King 1947 The Reach | 378 |
Bruce McAllister 1946 The Girl Who Loved Animals | 500 |
Kathe Koja and Barry N Malzberg Ursus Triad Later | 518 |
His Talk Her Teeth | 525 |
Nicholson Baker 1957 Subsoil | 533 |