A story about this — 2 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Contents:
- Introduction (Joyce Carol Oates)
- Charles Brockden Brown – from Wieland, or The Transformation
- Washington Irving – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Man of Adamant; Young Goodman Brown
- Herman Melville – The Tartarus of Maids
- Edgar Allan Poe – The Black Cat
- Charlotte Perkins Gillman – The Yellow Wallpaper
- Henry James – The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
- Ambrose Bierce – The Damned Thing
- Edith Wharton – Afterward
- Gertrude Atherton – The Striding Place
- Sherwood Anderson – Death in the Woods
- H.P. Lovecraft – The Outsider
- William Faulkner – A Rose for Emily
- August Derleth – The Lonesome Place
- E.B. White – The Door
- Shirley Jackson – The Lovely House
- Paul Bowles – Allal
- Isaac Bashevis Singer – The Reencounter
- William Goyen – In the Icebound Hothouse
- John Cheever – The Enormous Radio
- Ray Bradbury – The Veldt
- W.S. Merwin – The Dachau Shoe; The Approved; Spiders I Have Known; Postcards from the Maginot Line
- Sylvia Plath – Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
- Robert Coover – In Bed One Night
- Ursula K. Le Guin – Schrödinger’s Cat
- E.L. Doctorow – The Waterworks
- Harlan Ellison – Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
- Don DeLillo – Human Moments in a World War III
- John L’Heureux – The Anatomy of Desire
- Raymond Carver – Little Things
- Joyce Carol Oates – The Temple
- Anne Rice – Freniere (from Interview with the Vampire)
- Peter Straub – A Short Guide to the City
- Steven Millhauser – In the Penny Arcade
- Stephen King – The Reach
- Charles Johnson – Exchange Value
- John Crowley – Snow
- Thomas Ligotti – The Last Feast of Harlequin
- Breece D’J Pancake – Time and Again
- Lisa Tuttle – Replacements
- Melissa Pritchard – Spirit Seizures
- Nancy Etchemendy – Cat in Glass
- Bruce McAllister – The Girl Who Loved Animals
- Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg – Ursus Triad, Later
- Katherine Dunn – The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth (from Geek Love)
- Nicholson Baker – Subsoil
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