From the Book - Second edition.
The trial of G.B. ; The trial of Martha Carrier ; A notable exploit, wherein, dux faemina facti (The narrative of Hannah Dustan) / Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
A surprising account of the discovery of a lady ... / Abraham Panther
Letter IX (from letters from an American farmer) / J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
Somnambulism / Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Idiosyncrasies / John Neal (1793-1876)
From The Quaker city, or, the monks of Monk Hall / George Lippard (1822-1854)
The skeleton in armor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A struggle for life / Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
Alice Doane's appeal ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Hop-frog ; The cask of Amontillado ; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar ; The fall of the house of Usher ; The raven ; The city in the sea ; Ulalume ; Annabel Lee ; Dream-land / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The bell tower / Herman Melville (1819-1891)
My visitation / Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
Through lane it lay, through bramble ; I felt a funeral, in my brain ; 'Tis so appalling, it exhilarates ; The soul has bandaged moments ; One need not be a chamber to be haunted ; 'Twas like a maelstrom, with a notch ; If I may have it, when it's dead ; What mystery pervades a well! / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Her story ; Circumstance / Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
The death of Halpin Frayser ; An inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
The turn of the screw / Henry James (1843-1916)
Jean-ah Poquelin / George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
The little room / Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
The foreigner / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
Old woman Magoun ; Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
The bell in the fog / Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)
Talking bones / Anonymous (folk tale)
The sheriff's children ; The dumb witness / Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
The giant wisteria ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The house that was not / Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)
The eyes / Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
In the court of the dragon / Robert W. Chambers (1865-1943)
Nancy Knapp ; Barry Holden / Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
Luke Havergal ; Lisette and Eileen ; The dark house ; The mill ; Souvenir ; Why he was there / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Lauth / Frank Norris (1870-1902)
The monster / Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The lynching of Rube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Chinnubbie and the owl / Alexander Posey (1873 -1908)
Samuel / Jack London (1876-1916)
The outsider / H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).
