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American Gothic Tales

  • 1996 first published
  • 544 pages

Joyce Carol Oates's American Gothic Tales (1996) is a gothic fiction and horror story collection. Key subjects include Schauererzählung.

35 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list.

At about 544 pages, most readers finish it in 9–10 hours.

About American Gothic Tales

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 Bradbury (1920– ), The Veldt W. S. Merwin (1927– ), The Dachau Shoe, The Approved, Spiders I Have Known, Postcards from the Maginot Line Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Robert Coover (1932– ), In Bed One Night Ursula K. Le Guin (1929– ), Schrodinger's Cat E. L.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Gothic revival, Literature
  • American Horror tales
  • Schauererzählung
  • Short stories, american
  • Short stories, Single author

Quick answers

Who wrote American Gothic Tales?

American Gothic Tales was written by Joyce Carol Oates and first published in 1996.

What genre is American Gothic Tales?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction and Horror.

How long is American Gothic Tales?

The median edition has 544 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to American Gothic Tales?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Fall of the House of Usher, Scary Stories and The Haunting of Hill House.

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