American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps by Peter Straub

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

American Fantastic Tales #1

Peter Straub with Sarah Orne Jewett, Fitz-James O'Brien, Washington Irving, Robert E. Howard, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Frank Norris, Gertrude Atherton, Kate Chopin, Emma Frances Dawson, Conrad Aiken, Ellen Glasgow, Seabury Quinn, John Kendrick Bangs, Stephen Vincent Benét, Henry S. Whitehead, Alice Brown, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Brockden Brown, Madeline Yale Wynne, Ralph Adams Cram, Clark Ashton Smith, Edward Lucas White, Robert W. Chambers, F. Marion Crawford, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Robert Bloch, Harriet Prescott Spofford, W.C. Morrow, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, David H. Keller, Julian Hawthorne, Henry James, Herman Melville, Francis Stevens, Bret Harte, Lafcadio Hearn, Stephen Crane

761 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
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Contributors: Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Alice Brown, Lafcadio Hearn, David H. Keller, Sarah Orne Jewett, Gertrude Atherton, August Derleth, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Bret Harte, Francis Stevens, Stephen Vincent Benét, W.C. Morrow, Ambrose Bie...

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mysterious 100%
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