| Phys Descr |
xii, 383 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The legend of Sleepy Holly / Washington Irving -- An essay for the recording of remarkable providences / Increase Mather -- Wonders of the invisible world / Cotton Mather -- Lithobolia / R. C. -- Wieland / Charles Brockden Brown -- The money-diggers / Washington Irving -- Rachel Dyer / John Neal -- Moll Pitcher / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The birth-mark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- Edgar Allan Poe -- The lake gun / James Fenimore Cooper -- In the pines / W. F. Mayer -- The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James -- An authenticated history of the bell witch / Martin van Buren Ingram -- Myths and legends of our own land / Charles M. Skinner -- The Salem wolf / Howard Pyle -- The case of Charles Dexter Ward / H. P. Lovecraft |
| Summary |
Collects sixteen tales of suspense, horror, and the supernatural from the Colonial era |
| Subject |
Suspense fiction, American
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Horror tales, American
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Short stories
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| Alt Author |
Davis, Graeme, editor
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| OCLC # |
975366128 |
| ISBN # |
9781681775296 |
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1681775298 |
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