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List of Authors x
Chronology xi
Thematic Table of Contents xv
Preface to the Second Edition xxviii
Editorial Principles xxix
Acknowledgments xxx
Introduction 1
Cotton Mather (16631728) 3
The Tryal of G. B. 4
The Trial of Martha Carrier 8
A Notable Exploit; wherein, Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan] 10
Abraham Panther 12
A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady 12
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (17351813) 16
fromLetters from an American Farmer: Letter IX 16
Charles Brockden Brown (17711810) 24
Somnambulism: A Fragment 24
Washington Irving (17831859) 36
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 36
John Neal (17931876) 55
Idiosyncrasies 55
Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) 73
Alice Doanes Appeal 74
Young Goodman Brown 80
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) 89
The Skeleton in Armor 89
Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) 94
Hop-Frog 94
The Cask of Amontillado 100
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 104
The Fall of the House of Usher 110
Five Poems 121
The Raven 121
The City in the Sea 124
Ulalume 125
Annabel Lee 127
Dream-Land 128
Herman Melville (18191891) 131
The Bell-Tower 131
George Lippard (18221854) 141
fromThe Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall141
Henry Clay Lewis (18251850) 146
A Struggle for Life 146
Rose Terry Cooke (18271892) 152
My Visitation 152
Emily Dickinson (18301886) 164
Eight Poems 164
F 43 Through lane it lay thro bramble 164
F 340 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 165
F 341 Tis so appalling it exhilarates 165
F 360 The Soul has Bandaged moments 166
F 407 One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted 166
F 425 Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch 167
F 431 If I may have it, when its dead, 167
F 1433 What mystery pervades a well! 168
Louisa May Alcott (18321888) 170
A Whisper in the Dark 170
Harriet Prescott Spofford (18351921) 194
Her Story 194
Circumstance 206
Ambrose Bierce (18421914?) 215
An Inhabitant of Carcosa 215
The Death of Halpin Frayser 217
Henry James (18431916) 227
The Turn of the Screw227
George Washington Cable (18441925) 290
Jean-Ah Poquelin 290
Madeline Yale Wynne (18471918) 304
The Little Room 304
Sarah Orne Jewett (18491909) 312
The Foreigner 312
Kate Chopin (18511904) 328
Désirées Baby 328
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (18521930) 333
Old Woman Magoun 333
Luella Miller 344
Gertrude Atherton (18571948) 353
The Bell in the Fog 353
Anonymous (Folk Tale) 367
Talking Bones 367
Charles W. Chesnutt (18581932) 368
The Dumb Witness 369
The Sheriffs Children 376
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (18601935) 387
The Giant Wisteria 387
The Yellow Wall-Paper 392
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (18621935) 403
The House That Was Not 403
Edith Wharton (18621937) 406
The Eyes 406
Robert W. Chambers (18651933) 419
In the Court of the Dragon 419
Edgar Lee Masters (18681950) 425
Two Poems 425
Nancy Knapp 425
Barry Holden 425
Edwin Arlington Robinson (18681935) 427
Six Poems 427
Luke Havergal 427
Lisette and Eileen 428
The Dark House 429
The Mill 430
Souvenir 431
Why He Was There 431
Frank Norris (18701902) 432
Lauth 432
Stephen Crane (18711900) 449
The Monster 449
Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906) 483
The Lynching of Jube Benson 483
Alexander Posey (18731908) 488
Chinnubbie and the Owl 488
Jack London (18761916) 492
Samuel 492
H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft (18901937) 505
The Outsider 505
Select Bibliography 510
Index of Titles and First Lines 513
Index to the Introductions and Footnotes 515