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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. HELL yeah. EVERY story in here is AMAZING! That never happens! Just began reading this lovely collection the other day. I'll have more to say about it later. I started at the beginning and am reading the stories in chronological order. I've been enjoying the nicely antiquated phrasing and will share some of those as I go along. For example, in W.C. Morrow's (1854-1923) story "His Unconquerable Enemy" there's this: "...he developed an augmented fiendishness." no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesAmerican Fantastic Tales (Set 1-2) Belongs to Publisher SeriesLibrary of America (196-197) ContainsThe Jelly-Fish by David H. Keller (indirect) Golden Baby by Alice Brown (indirect) Thurlow's Christmas Story by John Kendrick Bangs (indirect) Passing of a God by Henry S. Whitehead (indirect) The Curse of Everard Maundy by Seabury Quinn (indirect) Yuki-onna [short story] by Lafcadio Hearn (indirect) Lukundoo [short fiction] by Edward Lucas White (indirect) The Cloak by Robert Bloch (indirect) Afterward [short fiction] by Edith Wharton (indirect) Consequences by Willa Cather (indirect) Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (indirect) Absolute Evil by Julian Hawthorne (indirect) Mr. Arcularis {story} by Conrad Aiken (indirect) The Panelled Room by August Derleth (indirect) The Shadowy Third by Ellen Glasgow (indirect) The Black Dog by Stephen Crane (indirect) In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett (indirect) The Legend of Monte del Diablo by Bret Harte (indirect) Somnambulalism: A Fragment by Charles Brockden Brown (indirect) The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving (indirect) Berenice [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe (indirect) Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (indirect) The Tartarus of Maids (Short Story) by Herman Melville (indirect) What Was It? by Fitz James O'Brien (indirect) The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (indirect) His Unconquerable Enemy by W. C. Morrow (indirect) The Yellow Wallpaper - story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (indirect) Ma'ame Pélagie [short story] by Kate Chopin (indirect) The Repairer of Reputations [short story] by Robert W. Chambers (indirect) The Dead Valley [short story] by Ralph Adams Cram (indirect) The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne (indirect) The Striding Place [short story] by Gertrude Atherton (indirect) An Itinerant House by Emma Frances Dawson (indirect) Grettir at Thorhall-Stead by Frank Norris (indirect) For the Blood Is the Life [short story] by F. Marion Crawford (indirect) The Moonlit Road [Short story] by Ambrose Bierce (indirect) The Shell of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar (indirect) The Jolly Corner by Henry James (indirect) Unseen—Unfeared (short story) by Francis Stevens (indirect) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (indirect) The King of the Cats by Stephen Vincent Benét (indirect) The Black Stone [short story] by Robert E. Howard (indirect) The Thing on the Doorstep [short story] by H. P. Lovecraft (indirect) Genius Loci [short story] by Clark Ashton Smith (indirect) Lukundoo [short story] by Edward Lucas White (indirect) Evening Primrose [short story] by John Collier (indirect) Smoke Ghost [short story] by Fritz Leiber (indirect) The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams (indirect) The Refugee by Jane Rice (indirect) Mr. Lupescu [Short story] by Anthony Boucher (indirect) Miriam by Truman Capote (indirect) Torch Song by John Cheever (indirect) The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson (indirect) The Circular Valley (Short Story) by Paul Bowles (indirect) I'm Scared by Jack Finney (indirect) The April Witch [short story] by Ray Bradbury (indirect) Black Country by Charles Beaumont (indirect) Trace [short story] by Jerome Bixby (indirect) Where the Woodbine Twineth by Davis Grubb (indirect) Nightmare by Donald Wandrei (indirect) Prey by Richard Matheson (indirect) The Events at Poroth Farm by T. E. D. Klein (indirect) Hanka by Isaac Bashevis Singer (indirect) Linnaeus Forgets by Fred Chappell (indirect) Novelty {story} by John Crowley (indirect) Mr. Fiddlehead {story} by Jonathan Carroll (indirect) Family by Joyce Carol Oates (indirect) The Last Feast of Harlequin [short fiction] by Thomas Ligotti (indirect) A Short Guide to the City [short fiction] by Peter Straub (indirect) The General Who Is Dead by Jeff VanderMeer (indirect) Sea Oak by George Saunders (indirect) The Long Hall on the Top Floor by Caitlín Kiernan (indirect) Nocturne by Thomas Tessier (indirect) The God of Dark Laughter by Michael Chabon (indirect) Pansu by Poppy Z. Brite (indirect) The Chambered Fruit by M. Rickert (indirect) Stone Animals by Kelly Link (indirect) Pat Moore [short story] by Tim Powers (indirect) The Little Stranger by Gene Wolfe (indirect) Dial Tone by Benjamin Percy (indirect) The Wavering Knife [short story] by Brian Evenson (indirect) Dangerous Laughter (Short Story) by Steven Millhauser (indirect)
From its beginning, American literature teems with tales of horror, hauntings, terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. In the tales of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, and their literary successors, the bright prospects of the New World face an uneasy reckoning with the forces of darkness. As this pathbreaking two-volume anthology demonstrates, it is a tradition with many unexpected detours and hidden chambers, and one that continues to evolve, finding new forms and new themes. Peter Straub, a contemporary master of literary horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight, in styles ranging from the exquisitely insinuating speculations of Henry James's "The Jolly Corner" to the nightmarish post-apocalyptic savagery of Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream." Ghostly narratives of the Edwardian era, lurid classics from the pulp heyday of Weird Tales, latter-day masterpieces by Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, and Steven Millhauser: over 80 stories in all, with a generous selection of contemporary authors who continue to push the genre in new and startling directions. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. No library descriptions found. |
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