Contents: Introduction Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), from Weiland, or The Transformation Washington Irving (1783-1859), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Man of Adamant, Young Goodman Brown Herman Melville (1819-1891), The Tartarus of Maids Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Black Cat Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), The Yellow Wallpaper Henry James (1843-1916), The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), The Damned Thing Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Afterward Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948), The Striding Place Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), Death in the Woods H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), The Outsider William Faulkner (1893-1962), A Rose for Emily August Derleth (1909-1971), The Lonesome Place E. B. White (1899-1985), The Door Shirley Jackson (1919-1965), The Lovely House Paul Bowles (1910- ), Allal Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), The Reencounter William Goyen (1915-1983), In the Icebound Hothouse John Cheever (1912-1982), The Enormous Radio Ray ...