Early American Gothic Stories and Poems

Early American Gothic Stories and Poems is the first of the ‘By Candlelight’ series of “bedtime stories for grown-ups” meant to be read in the spirit of reviving that long-beloved childhood tradition of storytime.<br/>All the stories and poems in this volume were written between 1820 and 1936 and represent what editor Nina Alvarez considers a toothsome cross-section of early American literature in the Gothic tradition.<br/>This collection includes:<br/>"Silence: - A Fable" by Edgar Allan Poe<br/>"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br/>"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe<br/>"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving<br/>"Haunted Houses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br/>"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe<br/>"Souvenir" by Edwin Arlington Robinson<br/>"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br/>“One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —” by Emily Dickinson<br/>"The Minister’s Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br/>"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe<br/>"The Wildermings" by Alice Cary<br/>"The Mill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson<br/>"The Eyes" by Edith Wharton<br/>"Spirits of the Dead" by Edgar Allan Poe