American Supernatural Tales

As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. "American Supernatural Tales" celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and - of course - Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics.

Sources:
Washington Irving: “The Adventure of the German Student”
Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Edward Randolph’s Portrait”
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Fitz-James O’Brien: “What Was It?”
Ambrose Bierce: “The Death of Halpin Frayser”
Robert W. Chambers: “The Yellow Sign”
Henry James: “The Real Right Thing”
H. P. Lovecraft: “The Call of Cthulhu”
Clark Ashton Smith: “The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis”
Robert E. Howard: “Old Garfield’s Heart”
Robert Bloch: “Black Bargain”
August Derleth: “The Lonesome Place”
Fritz Leiber: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”
Ray Bradbury: “The Fog Horn”
Shirley Jackson: “A Visit”
Richard Matheson: “Long Distance Call”
Charles Beaumont: “The Vanishing American”
T. E. D. Klein: “The Events at Poroth Farm”
Stephen King: “Night Surf”
Dennis Etchison: “The Late Shift”
Thomas Ligotti: “Vastarien”
Karl Edward Wagner: “Endless Night”
Norman Partridge: “The Hollow Man”
David J. Schow: “Last Call for the Sons of Shock”
Joyce Carol Oates: “Demon”
Caitlin R. Kiernan: “In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)”

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