AMERICAN GOTHlCTALES CONTENTS

Introduction 1 Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), from Wieland, or The Transformation , 10 Washington Irving (1783-1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 19 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Man of Adamant, Young Goodman Brown 45 Herman Melville (1819-1891), The Tartarus of Maids 65 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Black Cat 78 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), The Yellow Wallpaper 87 Henry James (1843-1916), The Romance of Certain Old Clothes 103 Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), The Damned Thing 121 Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Afterward 129 Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948), The Striding Place 157 Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), Death in the Woods 163 H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), The Outsider 175 William Faulkner (1893-1962), A Rose for Emily 182 August Derleth (1909-1971), The Lonesome Place 191 E. B. White (1899-1985), The Door 199 Shirley Jackson (1919-1965), The Lovely House 204 Paul Bowles (1910- ), Allal 226 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), The Reencounter 236 William Goyen (1915-1983), In the Icebound Hothouse 242 John Cheever (1912-1982), The Enormous Radio 253 Ray Bradbury (1920- ), The Veldt 264 CONTENTS W. S. Merwin (1927- ), The Dachau Shoe, The Approved, Spiders I Have Known, Postcards from the Maginot Line 278 Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams 286 Robert Coover (1932- ), In Bed One Night 301 Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ), Schrodinger's Cat 304 E. L. Doctorow (1931- ), The Waterworks 312 Harlan Ellison (1934- ), Shattered Like a Glass Goblin 315 Don DeLillo (1936- ), Human Moments in World War III 325 John L'Heureux (1938- ), The Anatomy of Desire 339 Raymond Carver (1938-1988), Little Things . 344 Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ), The Temple 346 Anne Rice (1941- ), Freniere 349 Peter Straub (1943- ), A Short Guide to the City 358 Steven Millhauser (1943- ), In The Penny Arcade 369 Stephen King (1947- ), The Reach 378 Charles Johnson (1948- ), Exchange Value .398 John Crowley (1942- ), Snow 406 Thomas Ligotti (1947- ), The Last Feast of Harlequin 420 Breece D'J Pancake (1952-1979), Time and Again 455 Lisa Tuttle (1952- ), Replacements 460 Melissa Pritchard (1948- ), Spirit Seizures 475 Nancy Etchemendy (1952- ), Cat in Glass 486 Bruce McAllister (1946- ), The Girl Who Loved Animals 500 Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg, Ursus Triad, Later . 518 Katherine Dunn, The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth 525 Nicholson Baker (1957- ), Subsoil 533