American Fantastic Tales (American Fantastic Tales #1-2)
Peter Straub
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
4.50
· 2 ratings · 1500 pages · Published: 01 Oct 2009
I. Terror and the Uncanny
From Poe to the Pulps
768 pp.
II. Terror and the Uncanny
From the 1940s to Now
744 pp.
Featuring:
Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert W. Chambers, Kate Chopin, Lafcadio Hearn, F. Marion Crawford, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, John Collier, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Jack Finney, Shirley Jackson, Paul Bowles, Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, Vladimir Nabokov, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Crowley, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Michael Chabon, Steven Millhauser, Brian Evenson, Kelly Link, and dozens more.
"An encompassing and essential voyage to the dark side of the moon of American literature and a stupendous, spellbinding reading experience waiting to be had." - Jonathan Lethem
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- mystery 2
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- dystopia 2
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- spooky 2
- gothic 2
- vampires 1
- ghosts 1
- literary fiction 1
- monsters/creatures 1
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- anthology 3
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The 'American Fantastic Tales' series
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