American Gothic Tales ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Penguin/Plume, December 1996, 0-452-27489-3, $14.95, 547pp, tp, an, cover by Albert Pinkham Ryder)
Anthology of 46 literary stories of horror and suspense, arranged chronologically. Authors include Washington Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Rice, Harlan Ellison, and Stephen King.
- 1 · Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in
- 10 · from Wieland; or, The Transformation · Charles Brockden Brown · ex 1798
- 19 · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- 45 · The Man of Adamant · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1837, 1836, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy”; subtitled “An Apologue”.
- 52 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- 65 · The Tartarus of Maids · Herman Melville · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited.
- 78 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843
- 87 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- 103 · The Romance of Certain Old Clothes · Henry James · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1868, uncredited.
- 121 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893
- 129 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910
- 157 · The Striding Place · Gertrude Atherton · ss The Speaker June 20 1896, as “The Twins”
- 163 · Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926
- 175 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926
- 182 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- 191 · The Lonesome Place · August Derleth · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries February 1948
- 199 · The Door · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker March 25 1939
- 204 · The Lovely House · Shirley Jackson · nv New World Writing #2, Mentor, 1952
- 226 · Allal · Paul Bowles · ss Too Far from Home by Paul Bowles, The Ecco Press, 1993
- 236 · The Reencounter · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982
- 242 · In the Icebound Hothouse · William Goyen · ss Had I a Hundred Mouths by William Goyen, Clarkson N. Potter, 1985
- 253 · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947
- 264 · The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made”
- 278 · The Dachau Shoe · W. S. Merwin · vi The Miner’s Pale Children by W. S. Merwin, Atheneum, 1970
- 280 · The Approved · W. S. Merwin · vi The Miner’s Pale Children by W. S. Merwin, Atheneum, 1970
- 282 · Spiders I Have Known · W. S. Merwin · pp guabi #2, 1970
- 284 · Postcards from the Maginot Line · W. S. Merwin · vi The Miner’s Pale Children by W. S. Merwin, Atheneum, 1970
- 286 · Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams · Sylvia Plath · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1968
- 301 · In Bed One Night · Robert Coover · vi Playboy January 1980
- 304 · Schrödinger’s Cat · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Universe 5 ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
- 312 · The Waterworks · E. L. Doctorow · vi Lives of the Poets by E. L. Doctorow, Random House, 1984
- 315 · Shattered Like a Glass Goblin · Harlan Ellison · ss Orbit 4 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1968
- 325 · Human Moments in World War III · Don DeLillo · ss Esquire July 1983
- 339 · The Anatomy of Desire · John L’Heureux · ss Desires by John L'Heureux, Holt, 1981
- 344 · Little Things · Raymond Carver · vi 1986
- 346 · The Temple · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Demon and Other Tales by Joyce Carol Oates, Necronomicon Press, 1996
- 349 · Freniere · Anne Rice · ex from Interview with the Vampire, Knopf, 1976
- 358 · A Short Guide to the City · Peter Straub · ss Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub, Grafton, 1990
- 369 · In the Penny Arcade · Steven Millhauser · ss The Hudson Review Summer 1984
- 378 · The Reach · Stephen King · ss Yankee November 1981, as “Do the Dead Sing?”
- 398 · Exchange Value · Charles Johnson · ss Choice 1981
- 406 · Snow · John Crowley · nv Omni November 1985
- 420 · The Last Feast of Harlequin [Cthulhu] · Thomas Ligotti · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1990
- 455 · Time and Again · Breece D’J Pancake · ss 1977
- 460 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992
- 475 · Spirit Seizures · Melissa Pritchard · ss Spirit Seizures by Melissa Pritchard, University of Georgia, 1987
- 486 · Cat in Glass · Nancy Etchemendy · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 1989
- 500 · The Girl Who Loved Animals · Bruce McAllister · nv Omni May 1988
- 518 · Ursus Triad, Later · Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg · ss Off Limits ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's, 1996
- 525 · The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth · Katherine Dunn · ex from Geek Love, Knopf, 1989
- 533 · Subsoil · Nicholson Baker · ss The New Yorker June 27/July 4 1994
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