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From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume anthology demonstrates, it is a tradition with many unexpected detours and hidden chambers, and one that continues to evolve, finding new forms and new themes as it explores the bad dreams that lurk around the edges-if not in the unacknowledged heart--of the everyday. Peter Straub, one of today's masters of horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight. This first volume surveys a century and a half of American fantastic storytelling, revealing in its 44 stories an array of recurring themes: trance states, sleepwalking, mesmerism, obsession, possession, madness, exotic curses, evil atmospheres. In the tales of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, the bright prospects of the New World face an uneasy reckoning with the forces of darkness. In the ghost-haunted Victorian and Edwardian eras, writers including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ambrose Bierce explore ever more refined varieties of spectral invasion and disintegrating selfhood. In the twentieth century, with the arrival of the era of the pulps, the fantastic took on more monstrous and horrific forms at the hands of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, and other classic contributors to "Weird Tales." Here are works by acknowledged masters such as Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Conrad Aiken, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, along with surprising discoveries like Ralph Adams Cram's "The Dead Valley," Emma Francis Dawson's "An Itinerant House," and Julian Hawthorne's "Absolute Evil." "American Fantastic Tales" offers an unforgettable ride through strange and visionary realms. "A stupendous, spellbinding reading experience waiting to be had." -Jonathan Lethem Coming Attractions: The latest news on pulp related The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2017! Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day - Home [ Home][ CHFC][List of Comics][ Info From eBay][ Cover Scans Needed][ Links][ Contact][ About] Cover Archives: [ Comics][ Foreign][ Overstreet][ Paperbacks][ Pulps] CURRENT NEWS - marvel masterworks Masterworks: Doctor Strange Vol 8 (5/10) DC Absolute Edition: Preacher Vol 2 (5/3) Marvel Omnibus: Marvel Monsterbus (5/3) DC Omnibus: Wonder Woman By George Prez Black Dossier Annotations - Enjolrasworld The text here except where otherwise quoted is copyright Jess Nevins 2008 It may not be reproduced in part or in full without credit Radium Age Sci-Fi: 100 Best HiLobrow MORE LIT LISTS: 50 Best Scientific Romances (18641903) Radium Age Sci-Fi: 100 Best Novels of 190433 Golden Age Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 19341963 75 Jeff Allender's House of Checklists ! All Lists Jeff Allender's Hou se of Checklists the complete list of trading cards checklists Story of the Week Interesting Links Weird Tales: The Unique Magazine (The Pulp Magazines Project) Henry Morton Stanley and the Pygmies of Darkest Africa (Brian H
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