{"product_id":"american-gothic-tales-william-abrahams-9780452274891","title":"American Gothic Tales William Abrahams","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. \u003cp\u003eIn showing us the gothic vision—a world askew where mankind’s forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawless—Joyce Carol Oates includes Henry James’s “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Herman Melville’s horrific tale of factory women, “The Tartarus of Mai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In compiling 40 short stories that represent the 200-year history of ‘gothic’ fiction in America, from Washington Irving's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow\u003c\/i\u003e to Stephen King's \u003ci\u003eThe Reach\u003c\/i\u003e, Oates employs an eclectic and elastic definition of the genre… Oates's taste in the quality of stories is always impeccable. The pieces also all share a certain darkness. Entries range from Edgar Allen Poe's sadistic \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cat\u003c\/i\u003e to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic psychological horror story \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper\u003c\/i\u003e. Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice and Katherine Dunn are also represented. Among the more idiosyncratic selections are Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003eThe Tartarus of Maids\u003c\/i\u003e; Don DeLillo's beautiful tale of astronauts floating above the earth in \u003ci\u003eHuman Moments in World War III\u003c\/i\u003e; and Paul Bowles's strange and powerful \u003ci\u003eAllal\u003c\/i\u003e, about a Moroccan orphan boy who so identifies with a snake that they mysteriously change bodies-and meet gory fates.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eCharles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), from \u003ci\u003eWieland, or the Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWashington Irving (1783-1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Man of Adamant, Young Goodman Brown\u003cbr\u003eHerman Melville (1819-1891), The Tartarus of Maids\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Black Cat\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), The Yellow Wallpaper\u003cbr\u003eHenry James (1843-1916), The Romance of Certain Old Clothes\u003cbr\u003eAmbrose Bierce (1842-1914?), The Damned Thing\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton (1862-1937), Afterward\u003cbr\u003eGertrude Atherton (1857-1948), The Striding Place\u003cbr\u003eSherwood Anderson (1876-1941), Death in the Woods\u003cbr\u003eH.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), The Outsider\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Faulkner (1893-1962), A Rose for Emily\u003cbr\u003eAugust Derleth (1909-1971), The Lonesome Place\u003cbr\u003eE.B. White (1899-1985), The Door\u003cbr\u003eShirley Jackson (1919-1965), The Lovely House\u003cbr\u003ePaul Bowles (1910- ), Allal\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), The Reencounter\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Goyen (1915-1983), In the Icebound Hothouse\u003cbr\u003eJohn Cheever (1912-1982), The Enormous Radio\u003cbr\u003eRay Bradbury (1920- ), The Veldt\u003cbr\u003eW.S. Merwin (1927- ), The Dachau Shoe, the Approved, Spiders I Have Known, Postcards from the Maginot Line\u003cbr\u003eSylvia Plath (1932-1963), Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams\u003cbr\u003eRobert Coover (1932- ), In Bed One Night\u003cbr\u003eUrsula K. LeGuin (1929- ), Schrödinger's Cat\u003cbr\u003eE.L. Doctorow (1931- ), The Waterworks\u003cbr\u003eHarlan Ellison (1934- ), Shattered Like a Glass Goblin\u003cbr\u003eDon DeLillo (1936- ), Human Moments in World War III\u003cbr\u003eJohn L'Heureux (1938- ), The Anatomy of Desire\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Carver (1938-1988), Little Things\u003cbr\u003eJoyce Carol Oates (1938- ), The Temple\u003cbr\u003eAnne Rice (1941- ), Freniere\u003cbr\u003ePeter Straub (1943- ), A Short Guide to the City\u003cbr\u003eSteven Millhauser (1943- ), In the Penny Arcade\u003cbr\u003eStephen King (1947- ), The Reach\u003cbr\u003eCharles Johnson (1948- ), Exchange Value\u003cbr\u003eJohn Crowley (1942- ), Snow\u003cbr\u003eThomas Ligotti (1947- ), The Last Feast of Harlequin\u003cbr\u003eBreece D'J Pancake (1952-1979), Time and Again\u003cbr\u003eLisa Tuttle (1952- ), Replacements\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Pritchard (1948- ), Spirit Seizures\u003cbr\u003eNancy Etchemendy (1952- ), Cat in Glass\u003cbr\u003eBruce McAllister (1946- ), The Girl Who Loved Animals\u003cbr\u003eKathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg, Ursus Triad, Later\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Dunn, The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth\u003cbr\u003eNicholson Baker (1957- ), Subsoil\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525347254615,"sku":"9780452274891","price":18.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780452274891.jpg?v=1731860171","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-gothic-tales-william-abrahams-9780452274891","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}