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Index
List of Authors
Chronology
Thematic Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Editorial Principles
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
The Tryal of G. B. at a Court of OYER AND TERMINER, HELD IN SALEM, 1692
The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD BY ADJOURNMENT AT SALEM, AUGUST 2, 1692
A Notable Exploit; wherein, Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan]
“Abraham Panther”
A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady who was taken by the Indians in the year 1777, and after making her escape, she retired to a lonely Cave, where she lived nine years
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735–1813)
Letters from an American Farmer LETTER IX. DESCRIPTION OF CHARLES-TOWN; THOUGHTS ON SLAVERY; ON PHYSICAL EVIL; A MELANCHOLY SCENE
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810)
Somnambulism: A Fragment
Washington Irving (1783–1859)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Found Among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker.
John Neal (1793–1876)
Idiosyncrasies
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
Alice Doane’s Appeal
Young Goodman Brown
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
The Skeleton in Armor
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Hop-Frog
The Cask of Amontillado
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
FIVE POEMS
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
The Bell-Tower
George Lippard (1822–1854)
from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall
Henry Clay Lewis (1825–1850)
A Struggle for Life
Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892)
My Visitation
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
EIGHT POEMS
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)
A Whisper in the Dark
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921)
Her Story
Circumstance
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?)
An Inhabitant of Carcosa
The Death of Halpin Frayser
Henry James (1843–1916)
The Turn of the Screw
George Washington Cable (1844–1925)
Jean-Ah Poquelin
Madeline Yale Wynne (1847–1918)
The Little Room
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
The Foreigner
Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
Désirée’s Baby
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930)
Old Woman Magoun
Luella Miller
Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948)
The Bell in the Fog
Anonymous (Folk Tale)
Talking Bones
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932)
The Dumb Witness
The Sheriff’s Children
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
The Giant Wisteria
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862–1935)
The House That Was Not
Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
The Eyes
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933)
In the Court of the Dragon
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)
TWO POEMS
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868–1935)
SIX POEMS
Frank Norris (1870–1902)
Lauth
Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
The Monster
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
The Lynching of Jube Benson
Alexander Posey (1873–1908)
Chinnubbie and the Owl
Jack London (1876–1916)
Samuel
H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft (1890–1937)
The Outsider
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Index of Titles and First Lines
Index to the Introductions and Footnotes
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