American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

Straub, a contemporary master of literary horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight. Ghostly narratives of the Edwardian era, lurid classics from the pulp heyday, and modern-day masterpieces are included in these collections.

• Author
• Peter Straub, Edgar Allan Poe, Ellen Glasgow, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fitz-James O'Brien, Bret Harte, Washington Irving, Harriet Prescott Spofford, W.C. Morrow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, Ralph Adams Cram, Madeline Yale Wynne, Emma Frances Dawson, Charles Brockden Brown, Frank Norris, Edward Lucas White, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Willa Cather, Francis Stevens, Julian Hawthorne, Seabury Quinn, Stephen Vincent Benét, David H. Keller, Herman Melville, Conrad Aiken, Robert E. Howard, Henry S. Whitehead, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert W. Chambers, Kate Chopin, Lafcadio Hearn, F. Marion Crawford, Gertrude Atherton, Alice Brown

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 750

• Series
• American Fantastic Tales

• Publisher
• Library of America

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781598530476

• Genres
• horror, fantasy, fiction, anthologies, gothic, literature, classics, halloween

• Release date
• 2009