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| List of Authors | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Thematic Table of Contents | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Editorial Principles | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cotton Mather (1663-1728) | |
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| "The Tryal of G. B." | |
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| "The Trial of Martha Carrier" | |
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| A Notable Exploit; wherein, Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan] | |
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| "Abraham Panther" | |
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| A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady… | |
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| J. Hector St. John de Cr�vecoeur (1735-1813) | |
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| from Letters from an American Farmer. "Letter IX" | |
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| Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) | |
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| "Somnambulism: A Fragment" | |
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| Washington Irving (1783-1859) | |
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| "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | |
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| John Neal (1793-1876) | |
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| "Idiosyncrasies" | |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) | |
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| "Alice Doane's Appeal" | |
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| "Young Goodman Brown" | |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) | |
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| "The Skeleton in Armor" | |
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| Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | |
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| "Hop-Frog" | |
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| "The Cask of Amontillado" | |
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| "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" | |
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| "The Fall of the House of Usher" | |
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| Five Poems | |
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| "The Raven" | |
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| "The City in the Sea" | |
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| "Ulalume" | |
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| �Annabel Lee" | |
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| "Dream-Land" | |
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| Herman Melville (1819-1891) | |
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| "The Bell-Tower" | |
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| George Lippard (1822-1854) | |
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| from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall | |
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| Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850) | |
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| �A Struggle for Life" | |
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| Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) | |
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| "My Visitation" | |
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| Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | |
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| Eight Poems | |
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| F 43 "Through lane it lay - thro' bramble _" | |
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| F 340 "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" | |
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| F 341 "Tis so appalling - it exhilarates _" | |
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| F 360 "The Soul has Bandaged moments _" | |
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| F 407 "One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted _" | |
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| F 425 "'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch" | |
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| F 431 "If I may have it, when it's dead," | |
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| F1433 "What mystery pervades a well!" | |
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| Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) | |
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| �A Whisper in the Dark" | |
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| Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921) | |
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| "Her Story" | |
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| "Circumstance" | |
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| Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) | |
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| "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" | |
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| "The Death of Halpin Frayser" | |
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| Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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| The Turn of the Screw | |
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| George Washington Cable (1844-1925) | |
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| "Jean-Ah Poquelin" | |
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| Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918) | |
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| "The Little Room" | |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
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| "The Foreigner" | |
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| Kate Chopin (1851-1904) | |
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| "D�sir�e's Baby" | |
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| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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| "Old Woman Magoun" | |
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| "Luella Miller" | |
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| Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) | |
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| "The Bell in the Fog" | |
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| Anonymous (Folk Tale) | |
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| "Talking Bones" | |
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| Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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| "The Dumb Witness" | |
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| "The Sheriff's Children" | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
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| "The Giant Wisteria" | |
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| "The Yellow Wall-Paper" | |
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| Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) | |
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| "The House That Was Not" | |
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| Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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| "The Eyes" | |
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| Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) | |
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| "In the Court of the Dragon" | |
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| Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) | |
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| Two Poems | |
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| "Nancy Knapp" | |
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| "Barry Holden" | |
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| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1868-1935) | |
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| Six Poems | |
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| "Luke Havergal" | |
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| "Lisette and Eileen" | |
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| "The Dark House" | |
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| "The Mill" | |
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| "Souvenir" | |
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| "Why He Was There" | |
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| Frank Norris (1870-1902) | |
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| "Lauth" | |
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| Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | |
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| "The Monster" | |
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | |
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| "The Lynching of Jube Benson" | |
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| Alexander Posey (1873-1908) | |
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| "Chinnubbie and the Owl" | |
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| Jack London (1876-1916) | |
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| "Samuel" | |
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| H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft (1890-1937) | |
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| "The Outsider" | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |
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| Index to the Introductions and Footnotes | |