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Witches, Wraiths and Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance ed. Ronald Curran (Fawcett Premier, May 1971, M517, 95¢, 361pp, pb, an)

xi · Introduction · Ronald Curran · in

1 · Enchantments Encounter’d · Cotton Mather · ex The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather, 1692

9 · Old Deb and Other Old Colony Witches · William Root Bliss · ss The Old Colony Town and Other Sketches by William Root Bliss, Boston and New York, 1893

13 · Gen. Andrew Jackson · M. V. Ingram · ex from An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch, W.P. Titus, 1894; chapter XI.

17 · The Cat-Witch · Mary Richardson · vi American Negro Folktales ed. Richard M. Dorson, New York, 1968

19 · The Witch Dance on the Brocken · Frederick Gottschalck · ex from “German Legends”, Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine November 1840

21 · The Leeds Devil · Charles M. Skinner · vi American Myths and Legends by Charles M. Skinner, Philadelphia and London, 1903

23 · Stolen Fire · Virginia Frazer Boyle · vi Devil Tales by Virginia Frazer Boyle, Harper, 1900

27 · Seeing the Devil in Three Shapes · Mary Richardson · vi American Negro Folktales ed. Richard M. Dorson, New York, 1968

29 · Jonathan Moulton and the Devil · Samuel Adams Drake · ex from “The Heart of the White Mountains”, A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore by Samuel Adams Drake, Boston, 1901

34 · Barney Oxman and the Devil · Thomas Chandler Haliburton · vi The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, New York, 1856

38 · Death Waltz · Charles M. Skinner · vi Myths and Legends of Our Own Land by Charles M. Skinner, Philadelphia and London, 1896

40 · The Haunted House · Richard Chase · vi American Folk Tales and Songs ed. Richard Chase, New York, 1962

43 · The Ghost · [uncredited] · vi Atkinson’s Casket April 1832

45 · The Long Sleep · Charles M. Skinner · vi American Myths and Legends by Charles M. Skinner, Philadelphia and London, 1903

49 · The Legend of the Pipe · Launcelot · ss The Hesperus, and Western Miscellany July 19 1828 - August 2 1828

53 · Coffined Alive · [uncredited] · vi Atkinson’s Casket October 1832
from the New York Constellation.

57 · The Castle of Costanzo · [uncredited] · ss Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure v75, 1784

63 · The Parricide Punished · [uncredited] · ss Gentlemen and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine July 1789
first published in French in 1782.

67 · The Wig and the Black Cat · [uncredited] · vi from “The Steam-Boat”, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine December 1821; no. VIII, tale No. XIII.

71 · The Witch: A Tale of the Dark Ages · Elizabeth P. Hall · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book June 1841

86 · The Veil: An Adventure on Board a Steamboat · [uncredited] · ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine May 1838

94 · The Midnight Voyage of the Seagull: A Tradition of Salem · Volney E. Howard (ghost written by Catherine Elizabeth Howard) · nv Godey’s Lady’s Book July 1842

123 · The Sphinx: An Extravaganza Etched in the Manner of Callot · [uncredited] · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine October 1828

145 · Tale of a Conjurer · [uncredited] · ss Atkinson’s Casket August 1833
from Oonagh Lynch, London.

150 · The Enchanter Faustus and Queen Elizabeth · [uncredited] · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1822

159 · The Dream · [uncredited] · ss Littell’s Living Age July 1844
from the New European Magazine.

168 · The Captive’s Dream: From the Papers of a Student · [uncredited] · ss Atkinson’s Casket November 1833

176 · The Wooden-Legged Ghost · John Waters · ss The Knickerbocker April 1840

182 · A Ghost Story · I. P. A. · vi Atkinson’s Casket November 1831

186 · The Village Doctor—A Tale: From the Journal of an American Traveller in England · Rudolph · ss The Hesperus, and Western Miscellany March 1 1828

193 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

206 · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon

235 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843

244 · A Ghost Story · Mark Twain · ss Werner’s Readings and Recitations, 1888

250 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine”

278 · The Tartarus of Maids · Herman Melville · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited.

292 · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838

308 · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon

324 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839

343 · The Bell-Tower · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly August 1855, uncredited.

359 · Selected Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

Dead Planets, Unhallowed Stars by Tim Curran (Dark Tree Press, December 2003, no ISBN, $6.00, 77pp, ph, co, cover by Sean Madden)
Chapbook collection of six stories, two original.

4 · Devil of the Sands · Tim Curran · ss

19 · The Black Ocean · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #5, 2000

27 · Ghost Ship · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #7, 2000

36 · Chill Factor · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #8, 2001

47 · Dead Planet · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #6, 2000

57 · Migration · Tim Curran · ss

The Slithering & Others by Tim Curran (Rainfall Books, April 2007, #032, £7.00, 40pp, ph, co, cover: The Slithering by Steve Lines)
The first collection by Tim Curran, author of Hive and Dead Sea.

· The Slithering · Tim Curran · ss Lovecraft’s Weird Mysteries v1 #10, 2005

· Eaters of Worms · Tim Curran · ss

· The Eyes of Howard Curlix · Tim Curran · ss Horrors Beyond: Tales of Terrifying Realities ed. William Jones, Elder Signs Press, 2005

American Short Stories (6th edition) ed. Eugene Current-Garcia & Bert Hitchcock (Addison-Wesley, August 1996, 0-673-46901-8, $44.00, tp, an)
Each section concludes with Suggestions for Discussion and Writing. Contents from Amazon.com.

· Section I: Romanticism and Realism: The First Century, 1789-1890

· The Story of the Captain’s Wife, and an Aged Woman · Ruri Colla · ss (r)

· Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell

· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· The Horse-Swap · Augustus Baldwin Longstreet · ss (r)

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843

· The Big Bear of Arkansas · Thomas Bangs Thorpe · ss The Spirit of the Times March 27 1841

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Langhorne Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869

· “Europe” · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1899

· A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

· The Passing of Grandison · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt, Houghton, Mifflin, 1899

· Section II: Maturation and Seasoning, 1890-1920

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· A New England Nun · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891

· The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · William Sydney Porter · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907, as by O. Henry

· The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904

· The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898

· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905

· To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902

· Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926

· A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.

· Section III: Renewal and Expansion, 1920-1940

· Silent Snow, Secret Snow · Conrad Aiken · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review October 1932

· The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935

· The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933

· A Memorial to the Slain · William March · ss (r)

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939

· Blood-Burning Moon · Jean Toomer · ss Prairie March/April 1923

· Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· In Another Country · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1927

· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937

· Thank You, Ma’m · Langston Hughes · ss The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes, G. Braziller, 1958

· Section IV: Established Modes and New Explorations, 1940-1975

· Big, Black, Good Man · Richard Wright · ss Esquire November 1957

· Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939

· A Man in the House · Cyrus Colter · ss (r)

· The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964

· The Jewbird · Bernard Malamud · ss The Reporter April 11 1963

· Samuel · Grace Paley · ss Something Else ed. Leo B. Kneer, Scott, Foresman and Co., 1970

· Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss Selected Writings of Truman Capote by Truman Capote, Random House, 1963

· Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955

· The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 17 1974

· A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961

· The Sky Is Gray · Ernest J. Gaines · ss Negro Digest August 1963

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966

· A Girl’s Story · Toni Cade Bambara · ss The Seabirds are Still Alive by Toni Cade Bambara, Random House, 1977

· Section V: Contemporary Flowering, 1975-

· What He Was Like · William Maxwell · ss The New Yorker December 7 1992

· Mazes · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Epoch ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Putnam, 1975

· Boxes · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker February 24 1986

· The Wrath-bearing Tree · Lynne Sharon Schwartz · ss (r)

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· Strong Horse Tea · Alice Walker · ss In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973

· Hunters in the Snow · Tobias Wolff · ss TriQuarterly #48, Spring 1980

· Fairy Tale · Robert Olen Butler · ss A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler, Henry Holt, 1992

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Gryphon · Charles Baxter · ss Epoch 1985

· Cheers · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips, Delacorte Press, 1979

· Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986

· ’Mericans · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991

· In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986

· Index · [uncredited] · ix (r)

American Short Stories (7th edition) ed. Eugene Current-Garcia & Bert Hitchcock (Longman US, December 2001, 0-321-08056-4, $48.00, 704pp, tp, an)
Each section concludes with Suggestions for Discussion and Writing. Contents from Amazon.com.

· Section One (1820-1890): Romanticism and Realism

· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843

· The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843

· The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Langhorne Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869

· “Europe” · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1899

· A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

· The Passing of Grandison · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt, Houghton, Mifflin, 1899

· Section Two (1890-1920): Maturation and Seasoning

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· At the ’Cadian Ball · Kate Chopin · ss Two Tales October 22 1892

· The Revolt of “Mother” · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1890, as by Mary E. Wilkins

· The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · William Sydney Porter · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907, as by O. Henry

· The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904

· The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898

· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905

· To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902

· Paper Pills · Sherwood Anderson · ss (r)

· A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.

· Section Three (1920-1940): Modernist Voices

· The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933

· The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935

· The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939

· Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927

· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937

· Thank You, Ma’m · Langston Hughes · ss The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes, G. Braziller, 1958

· Big Boy Leaves Home · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· Section Four (1940-1980): Tradition and Innovation

· The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1939

· The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964

· The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954

· Samuel · Grace Paley · ss Something Else ed. Leo B. Kneer, Scott, Foresman and Co., 1970

· Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957

· Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964

· The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973

· The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 17 1974

· Cartoon · Robert Coover · ss (r)

· A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966

· A Girl’s Story · Toni Cade Bambara · ss The Seabirds are Still Alive by Toni Cade Bambara, Random House, 1977

· Section Five (1980-present): Contemporary Diversity

· Boxes · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker February 24 1986

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss Ms. March 1981

· Hunters in the Snow · Tobias Wolff · ss TriQuarterly #48, Spring 1980

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Gryphon · Charles Baxter · ss Epoch 1985

· The Reach · Stephen King · ss Yankee November 1981, as “Do the Dead Sing?”

· The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists · Lydia Davis · ss (r)

· De Rerum Natura · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss 1976

· Cheers · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips, Delacorte Press, 1979

· Pet Fly · Walter Mosley · nv The New Yorker December 13 1999

· Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986

· The Cariboo Café · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985

· Ciudad Juárez · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Mississippi Review v18 #1, 1989

· Birthmates · Gish Jen · ss Ploughshares Winter 1994/1995

· This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona · Sherman Alexie · ss Esquire June 1993

· This Blessed House · Jhumpa Lahiri · ss (r)

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