American Gothic Tales

IntroductionCharles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), from Wieland, or the TransformationWashington Irving (1783-1859), The Legend of Sleepy HollowNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Man of Adamant, Young Goodman BrownHerman Melville (1819-1891), The Tartarus of MaidsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Black CatCharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), The Yellow WallpaperHenry James (1843-1916), The Romance of Certain Old ClothesAmbrose Bierce (1842-1914?), The Damned ThingEdith Wharton (1862-1937), AfterwardGertrude Atherton (1857-1948), The Striding PlaceSherwood Anderson (1876-1941), Death in the WoodsH.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), The OutsiderWilliam Faulkner (1893-1962), A Rose for EmilyAugust Derleth (1909-1971), The Lonesome PlaceE.B. White (1899-1985), The DoorShirley Jackson (1919-1965), The Lovely HousePaul Bowles (1910- ), AllalIsaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), The ReencounterWilliam Goyen (1915-1983), In the Icebound HothouseJohn Cheever (1912-1982), The Enormous RadioRay Bradbury (1920- ), The VeldtW.S. Merwin (1927- ), The Dachau Shoe, the Approved, Spiders I Have Known, Postcards from the Maginot LineSylvia Plath (1932-1963), Johnny Panic and the Bible of DreamsRobert Coover (1932- ), In Bed One NightUrsula K. LeGuin (1929- ), Schrödinger's CatE.L. Doctorow (1931- ), The WaterworksHarlan Ellison (1934- ), Shattered Like a Glass GoblinDon DeLillo (1936- ), Human Moments in World War IIIJohn L'Heureux (1938- ), The Anatomy of DesireRaymond Carver (1938-1988), Little ThingsJoyce Carol Oates (1938- ), The TempleAnne Rice (1941- ), FrenierePeter Straub (1943- ), A Short Guide to the CitySteven Millhauser (1943- ), In the Penny ArcadeStephen King (1947- ), The ReachCharles Johnson (1948- ), Exchange ValueJohn Crowley (1942- ), SnowThomas Ligotti (1947- ), The Last Feast of HarlequinBreece D'J Pancake (1952-1979), Time and AgainLisa Tuttle (1952- ), ReplacementsMelissa Pritchard (1948- ), Spirit SeizuresNancy Etchemendy (1952- ), Cat in GlassBruce McAllister (1946- ), The Girl Who Loved AnimalsKathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg, Ursus Triad, LaterKatherine Dunn, The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her TeethNicholson Baker (1957- ), Subsoil