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