American Gothic : An Anthology 1787-1916

This collection brings together, and sets into dialogue, Gothic works by a number of authors, men and women, black and white, which illuminate many of the deepest concerns and fears of nineteenth-century America.

Charles L. Crow if Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-editor of The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920 and of The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives, and author of numerous articles on such nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American authors as Howells, Clemens, Norris, London and Cather. He is past-president of the Frank Norris Society and is a founding member of the International Gothic Association.

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

1

(2)

``Abraham Panther''

3

(4)

An Account of a Beautiful Young Lady

3

(4)

Charles Brockden Brown (1771--1810)

7

(12)

Somnambulism

7

(12)

Washington Irving (1783--1859)

19

(11)

Rip Van Winkle

19

(11)

John Neal (1793--1876)

30

(18)

Idiosyncrasies

30

(18)

George Lippard (1822--54)

48

(5)

from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall

48

(5)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--82)

53

(4)

The Skeleton in Armor

53

(4)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789--1851)

57

(8)

from The Prairie

57

(8)

Henry Clay Lewis (1825--50)

65

(6)

A Struggle for Life

65

(6)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--49)

71

(35)

Hop-Frog

71

(5)

The Cask of Amontillado

76

(5)

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

81

(5)

The Fall of the House of Usher

86

(11)

The Raven

97

(2)

The City in the Sea

99

(2)

Ulalume

101

(2)

Annabel Lee

103

(1)

Dream-Land

104

(2)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--64)

106

(15)

Alice Doane's Appeal

106

(7)

Young Goodman Brown

113

(8)

Herman Melville (1819--91)

121

(10)

The Bell-Tower

121

(10)

Alice Cary (1820--71)

131

(5)

The Wildermings

131

(5)

Louisa May Alcott (1832--88)

136

(61)

Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power

136

(61)

Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835--1921)

197

(30)

The Amber Gods

197

(30)

Emily Dickinson (1830--86)

227

(6)

Through lane it lay -- through bramble

227

(1)

``Tis so appalling -- it exhilarates

227

(1)

``Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch

228

(1)

The Soul Has Bandaged Moments

229

(1)

Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth

229

(1)

One need not be a Chamber -- to be haunted

230

(1)

What mystery pervades a well!

230

(1)

In Winter in my Room

231

(2)

Samuel L. Clemens (MArk Twain) (1835--1910)

233

(8)

from Life on the Mississippi

233

(8)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849--1909)

241

(15)

The Foreigner

241

(15)

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852--1930)

256

(20)

Old Woman Magoun

256

(11)

Luella Miller

267

(9)

Henry James (1843--1916

276

(63)

The Turn of the Screw

276

(63)

Kate Chopin (1851--1904)

339

(4)

Desiree's Baby

339

(4)

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

343

(17)

Po' Sandy

343

(6)

The Sheriff's Children

349

(11)

George Washington Cable (1844--1925)

360

(13)

Jean-Ah Poquelin

360

(13)

Stephen Crane (1871--1900)

373

(35)

The Monster

373

(35)

Ambrose Bierce (1842--1914?)

408

(10)

The Death of Halpin Frayser

408

(10)

Frank Norris (1870--1902)

418

(16)

Lauth

418

(16)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860--1935)

434

(6)

The Giant Wisteria

434

(6)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)

440

(7)

from The Sport of the Gods

440

(7)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868--1935)

447

(5)

Luke Havergal

447

(1)

Lisette and Eileen

448

(1)

The Dark House

449

(1)

The Mill

450

(1)

Souvenir

451

(1)

Why He Was There

451

(1)

Lafcadio Hearn (1850--1904)

452

(2)

The Ghostly Kiss

452

(2)

Edith Wharton (1862--1937)

454

(12)

The Eyes

454

(12)

Jack London (1876--1916)

466

(12)

Samuel

466

(12)

Bibliography

478

(2)

Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines

480

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