A chilling collection of classic weird and supernatural tales from the
dark heart of American literature
A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal
ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling in the night: these ten
tales are some of the most strange and unsettling in all of American
literature, filled with unforgettable imagery and simmering with
tension. From Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne to
Zora Neale Hurston, the authors of these classics of supernatural
suspense have inspired generations of writers to explore the dark heart
of the land of the free.
The stories in this collection have been selected and introduced by
Laird Hunt, an author of seven acclaimed novels which explore the
shadowy corners of American history.
Contains:
'The Masque of the Red Death', Edgar Allan Poe
'Young Goodman Brown', Nathaniel Hawthorne
'The Eyes', Edith Wharton
'The Mask', Robert Chambers
'Home', Shirley Jackson
'A Ghost Story', Mark Twain
'Spunk', Zora Neale Hurston
'The Yellow Wallpaper', Charlotte Perkins Gilman
'An Itinerant House', Emma Frances Dawson