American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps - ed. Peter Straub

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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
Edited by Peter Straub
Read by Jim Zeiger
Encode: mp3 - 64 kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 49
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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 forty-four 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.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Peter Straub
02) Somnambulism: A Fragment by Charles Brockden Brown
03) The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving
04) Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
05) Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
06) The Tartarus of Maids by Herman Melville
07) What Was It? A Mystery by Fitz-James O’Brien
08) The Legend of Monte del Diablo by Bret Harte
09) The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford
10) His Unconquerable Enemy by W. C. Morrow
11) In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett
12) The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
13) The Black Dog by Stephen Crane
14) Ma’ame Pélagie by Kate Chopin
15) Thurlow’s Christmas Story by John Kendrick Bangs
16) The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
17) The Dead Valley by Ralph Adams Cram
18) The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne
19) The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton
20) An Itinerant House by Emma Frances Dawson
21) Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
22) Grettir at Thorhall-stead by Frank Norris
23) Yuki-Onna by Lafcadio Hearn
24) For the Blood Is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
25) The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
26) Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White
27) The Shell of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar
28) The Jolly Corner by Henry James
29) Golden Baby by Alice Brown
30) Afterward by Edith Wharton
31) Consequences by Willa Cather
32) The Shadowy Third by Ellen Glasgow
33) Absolute Evil by Julian Hawthorne
34) Unseen—Unfeared by Francis Stevens
35) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
36) The Curse of Everard Maundy by Seabury Quinn
37) The King of the Cats by Stephen Vincent Benét
38) The Jelly-Fish by David H. Keller, M.D.
39) Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
40) The Black Stone by Robert E. Howard
41) Passing of a God by Henry S. Whitehead
42) The Panelled Room by August Derleth
43) The Thing on the Doorstep by H. P. Lovecraft
44) Genius Loci by Clark Ashton Smith
45) The Cloak by Robert Bloch
46) Biographical Notes
47) Note on the Texts