An anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing.

Introduction --from Wieland, or the Transformation / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- The man of adamant, young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- The Tartarus of maids / Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James (1843-1916) -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) -- Afterward / Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- The striding place / Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- The outsider / H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner (1893-1962) -- The lonesome place / August Derleth (1909-1971) -- The door / E.B. White (1899-1985) -- The lovely house / Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) -- Allal / Paul Bowles (1910-1999) -- The reencounter / Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) -- The icebound hothouse / William Goyen (1915-1984) -- The enormous radio / John Cheever (1912-1982) -- The veldt / Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) -- The Dachau shoe / W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) -- The approved / W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) -- Spiders I have known / W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) -- Postcards from the Maginot line / W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) -- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- In bed one night / Robert Coover (1932-) -- Schrödinger's cat / Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) -- The waterworks / E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) -- Shattered like a glass goblin / Harlan Ellison (1934-2018) -- Human moments in World War III / Don DeLillo (1936-) -- The anatomy of desire / John L'Heureux (1938-2019) -- Little things / Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- The temple / Joyce Carol Oates (1938-) -- Freniere / Anne Rice (1941-2021) -- A short guide to the city / Peter Straub (1943-2022) -- In the penny arcade / Steven Millhauser (1943-) -- The reach / Stephen King (1947-) -- Exchange value / Charles Johnson (1948-) -- Snow / John Crowley (1942-) -- The last feast of Harlequin / Thomas Ligotti (1947-) -- Time and again / Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979) -- Replacements / Lisa Tuttle (1952-) -- Spirit seizures / Melissa Pritchard (1948-) -- Cat in glass / Nancy Etchemendy (1952-) -- The girl who loved animals / Bruce McAllister (1946-) -- Ursus triad, later / Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg -- The nuclear family: his talk, her teeth / Katherine Dunn -- Subsoil / Nicholson Baker (1957-).