Post by callipygias on Oct 27, 2009 18:57:52 GMT -5
Any favorite twisted authors of the macabre to recommend this Halloween?
I just got Library of America's new two-book set, American Fantastic Tales. Book one is called "Terror and the uncanny, from Poe to the pulps."
Quite a mass of stories between the two books. Here's the contents of the first book if you're interested or have any recommendations where I should start. I haven't read any of these:
Charles Brockden Brown ~ Somnambulism: A Fragment
Washington Irving ~ The Adventure of the German Student
Edgar Allan Poe ~ Berenice
Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Young Goodman Brown
Herman Melville ~ The Tartarus of Maids
Fitz-James O’Brien ~ What Was It?
Bret Harte ~ The Legend of Monte del Diablo
Harriet Prescott Spofford ~ The Moonstone Mass
W. C. Morrow ~ His Unconquerable Enemy
Sarah Orne Jewett ~ In Dark New England Days
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~ The Yellow Wall Paper
Stephen Crane ~ The Black Dog
Kate Chopin ~ Ma’ame Pélagie
John Kendrick Bangs ~ Thurlow’s Christmas Story
Robert W. Chambers ~ The Repairer of Reputations
Ralph Adams Cram ~ The Dead Valley
Madeline Yale Wynne ~ The Little Room
Gertrude Atherton ~ The Striding Place
Emma Francis Dawson ~ An Itinerant House
Mary Wilkins Freeman ~ Luella Miller
Frank Norris ~ Grettir at Thorhall-stead
Lafcadio Hearn ~ Yuki-Onna
F. Marion Crawford ~ For the Blood Is the Life
Ambrose Bierce ~ The Moonlit Road
Edward Lucas White ~ Lukundoo
Olivia Howard Dunbar ~ The Shell of Sense
Henry James ~ The Jolly Corner
Alice Brown ~ Golden Baby
Edith Wharton ~ Afterward
Willa Cather ~ Consequences
Ellen Glasgow ~ The Shadowy Third
Julian Hawthorne ~ Absolute Evil
Francis Stevens ~ Unseen—Unfeared
F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Seabury Quinn ~ The Curse of Everard Maundy
Stephen Vincent Benét ~ The King of the Cats
David H. Keller ~ The Jelly-Fish
Conrad Aiken ~ Mr. Arcularis
Robert E. Howard ~ The Black Stone
Henry S. Whitehead ~ Passing of a God
August Derleth ~ The Panelled Room
H. P. Lovecraft ~ The Thing on the Doorstep
Clark Ashton Smith ~ Genius Loci
Robert Bloch ~ The Cloak
I just got Library of America's new two-book set, American Fantastic Tales. Book one is called "Terror and the uncanny, from Poe to the pulps."
Quite a mass of stories between the two books. Here's the contents of the first book if you're interested or have any recommendations where I should start. I haven't read any of these:
Charles Brockden Brown ~ Somnambulism: A Fragment
Washington Irving ~ The Adventure of the German Student
Edgar Allan Poe ~ Berenice
Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Young Goodman Brown
Herman Melville ~ The Tartarus of Maids
Fitz-James O’Brien ~ What Was It?
Bret Harte ~ The Legend of Monte del Diablo
Harriet Prescott Spofford ~ The Moonstone Mass
W. C. Morrow ~ His Unconquerable Enemy
Sarah Orne Jewett ~ In Dark New England Days
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~ The Yellow Wall Paper
Stephen Crane ~ The Black Dog
Kate Chopin ~ Ma’ame Pélagie
John Kendrick Bangs ~ Thurlow’s Christmas Story
Robert W. Chambers ~ The Repairer of Reputations
Ralph Adams Cram ~ The Dead Valley
Madeline Yale Wynne ~ The Little Room
Gertrude Atherton ~ The Striding Place
Emma Francis Dawson ~ An Itinerant House
Mary Wilkins Freeman ~ Luella Miller
Frank Norris ~ Grettir at Thorhall-stead
Lafcadio Hearn ~ Yuki-Onna
F. Marion Crawford ~ For the Blood Is the Life
Ambrose Bierce ~ The Moonlit Road
Edward Lucas White ~ Lukundoo
Olivia Howard Dunbar ~ The Shell of Sense
Henry James ~ The Jolly Corner
Alice Brown ~ Golden Baby
Edith Wharton ~ Afterward
Willa Cather ~ Consequences
Ellen Glasgow ~ The Shadowy Third
Julian Hawthorne ~ Absolute Evil
Francis Stevens ~ Unseen—Unfeared
F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Seabury Quinn ~ The Curse of Everard Maundy
Stephen Vincent Benét ~ The King of the Cats
David H. Keller ~ The Jelly-Fish
Conrad Aiken ~ Mr. Arcularis
Robert E. Howard ~ The Black Stone
Henry S. Whitehead ~ Passing of a God
August Derleth ~ The Panelled Room
H. P. Lovecraft ~ The Thing on the Doorstep
Clark Ashton Smith ~ Genius Loci
Robert Bloch ~ The Cloak