American Fantastic Tales

Contents

Poe to the Pulps

• Introduction, by Peter Straub
• "Somnambulism: A Fragment", by Charles Brockden Brown
• "The Adventure of the German Student", by Washington Irving
• "Berenice", by Edgar Allan Poe
• "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The Tartarus of Maids", by Herman Melville
• "What Was It? A Mystery", by Fitz-James O'Brien
• "The Legend of Monte del Diablo", by Bret Harte
• "The Moonstone Mass", by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• "His Unconquerable Enemy", by W. C. Morrow
• "In Dark New England Days", by Sarah Orne Jewett
• "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• "The Black Dog", by Stephen Crane
• "Ma'ame Pélagie", by Kate Chopin
• "Thurlow's Christmas Story", by John Kendrick Bangs
• "The Repairer of Reputations", by Robert W. Chambers
• "The Dead Valley", by Ralph Adams Cram
• "The Little Room", by Madeline Yale Wynne
• "The Striding Place", by Gertrude Atherton
• "An Itinerant House", by Emma Frances Dawson
• "Luella Miller", by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• "Grettir at Thorhall-stead", by Frank Norris
• "Yuki-Onna", by Lafcadio Hearn
• "For the Blood Is the Life", by F. Marion Crawford
• "The Moonlit Road", by Ambrose Bierce
• "Lukundoo", by Edward Lucas White
• "The Shell of Sense", by Olivia Howard Dunbar
• "The Jolly Corner", by Henry James
• "Golden Baby", by Alice Brown
• "Afterward", by Edith Wharton
• "Consequences", by Willa Cather
• "The Shadowy Third", by Ellen Glasgow
• "Absolute Evil", by Julian Hawthorne
• "Unseen—Unfeared", by Francis Stevens
• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "The Curse of Everard Maundy", by Seabury Quinn
• "The King of the Cats", by Stephen Vincent Benét
• "The Jelly-Fish", by David H. Keller
• "Mr. Arcularis", by Conrad Aiken
• "The Black Stone", by Robert E. Howard
• "Passing of a God", by Henry S. Whitehead
• "The Panelled Room", by August Derleth
• "The Thing on the Doorstep", by H. P. Lovecraft
• "Genius Loci", by Clark Ashton Smith
• "The Cloak", by Robert Bloch
• Biographical Notes, by uncredited
• Note on the Texts, by uncredited
• Notes, by uncredited

  1940s to Now

• Introduction, by Peter Straub
• "Evening Primrose", by John Collier
• "Smoke Ghost", by Fritz Leiber
• "The Mysteries of the Joy Rio", by Tennessee Williams
• "The Refugee", by Jane Rice
• "Mr. Lupescu", by Anthony Boucher
• "Miriam", by Truman Capote
• "Midnight", by Jack Snow
• "Torch Song", by John Cheever
• "The Daemon Lover", by Shirley Jackson
• "The Circular Valley", by Paul Bowles
• "I'm Scared", by Jack Finney
• "The Vane Sisters", by Vladimir Nabokov
• "The April Witch", by Ray Bradbury
• "Black Country", by Charles Beaumont
• "Trace", by Jerome Bixby
• "Where the Woodbine Twineth", by Davis Grubb
• "Nightmare", by Donald Wandrei
• "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", by Harlan Ellison
• "Prey", by Richard Matheson
• "The Events at Poroth Farm", by T. E. D. Klein
• "Hanka", by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• "Linnaeus Forgets", by Fred Chappell
• "Novelty", by John Crowley
• "Mr. Fiddlehead", by Jonathan Carroll
• "Family", by Joyce Carol Oates
• "The Last Feast of Harlequin", by Thomas Ligotti
• "A Short Guide to the City", by Peter Straub
• "The General Who Is Dead", by Jeff VanderMeer
• "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French", by Stephen King
• "Sea Oak", by George Saunders
• "The Long Hall on the Top Floor", by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• "Nocturne", by Thomas Tessier
• "The God of Dark Laughter", by Michael Chabon
• "Pop Art", by Joe Hill
• "Pansu", by Poppy Z. Brite
• "Dangerous Laughter", by Steven Millhauser
• "The Chambered Fruit", by M. Rickert
• "The Wavering Knife", by Brian Evenson
• "Stone Animals", by Kelly Link
• "Pat Moore", by Tim Powers
• "The Little Stranger", by Gene Wolfe
• "Dial Tone", by Benjamin Percy
• Biographical Notes, by uncredited
• Note on the Texts, by uncredited
• Notes, by uncredited