American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction by Dale Bailey

American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction

Dale Bailey

156 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction horror dark slow-paced
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When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. “The House of Usher” and its literary progeny have not lacked ...

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