| Description |
viii, 544 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A William Abrahams book." |
| Contents |
From Wieland, or The transformation -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow -- The man of adamant -- Young Goodman Brown -- The Tartarus of maids -- The black cat -- The yellow wallpaper -- The romance of certain old clothes -- The damned thing -- Afterward -- The striding place -- Death in the woods -- The outsider -- A rose for Emily -- The lonesome place -- The door -- The lovely house -- Allal -- The reencounter -- In the icebound hothouse -- The enormous radio -- The veldt -- The Dachau shoe -- The approved -- Spiders I have known -- Postcards from the Maginot Line -- Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams -- In bed one night -- Schrödinger's cat -- The waterworks -- Shattered like a glass goblin -- Human moments in World War III -- The anatomy of desire -- Little things -- The temple -- Freniere -- A short guide to the city -- In the penny arcade -- The reach -- Exchange value -- Snow -- The last feast of Harlequin -- Time and again -- Replacements -- Spirit seizures -- Cat in glass -- The girl who loved animals -- Ursus Triad, later -- The nuclear family: his talk, her teeth -- Subsoil. |
| Summary |
Gothic fiction by more than 40 known and unknown writers. They range from William Sansom's A Woman Seldom Found, on an encounter in Rome between a man and a woman, to Paul Bowle's Allal, on an Arab boy who switches bodies with a snake. |
| Subject |
Horror tales, American.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
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| ISBN |
0452274893 |
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9780452274891 |
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