Description |
xii, 383 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
The legend of Sleepy Holly / Washington Irving -- An essay for the recording of remarkable providences / Increase Mather -- Wonders of the invisible world / Cotton Mather -- Lithobolia / R. C. -- Wieland / Charles Brockden Brown -- The money-diggers / Washington Irving -- Rachel Dyer / John Neal -- Moll Pitcher / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- Edgar Allan Poe -- The lake gun / James Fenimore Cooper -- In the pines / W. F. Mayer -- The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James -- An authenticated history of the bell witch / Martin van Buren Ingram -- Myths and legends of our own land / Charles M. Skinner -- The Salem wolf / Howard Pyle -- The case of Charles Dexter Ward / H. P. Lovecraft. |
Summary |
Collects sixteen tales of suspense, horror, and the supernatural from the Colonial era. |
Subject |
Suspense fiction, American.
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Horror tales, American.
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Short stories.
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FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
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FICTION / Historical.
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FICTION / Horror.
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FICTION / Occult & Supernatural.
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Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Horror fiction.
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Short stories.
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Added Author |
Davis, Graeme, editor.
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ISBN |
9781681775296 (hardcover) |
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1681775298 (hardcover) |
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