Books Set in the Antebellum era
Fiction set in the Antebellum era, mostly horror, demons & devils and gothic fiction. The most-read are The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992), 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition (2021) and The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981).
This list collects 39 books in this collection by 30 authors, published between 1961 and 2021. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
Jeffrey Eugenides, Антон Павлович Чехов
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz
Fiction
R.S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill
Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield
The Best Horror Stories
Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
The Evil Image
Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams
The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition
Jon C. Stott, Raymond E. Jones
The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised
Douglas Angus, Антон Павлович Чехов
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
Jon C. Stott, Raymond E. Jones
Exploring Literature -- Fourth Edition
Frank Madden, Kate Chopin
Twelve Short Stories
Marvin Magalaner, Edmond Volpe
Short Stories
Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perrine's Story and Structure--Twelfth Edition
Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson
Literature - Structure, sound, and sense - Fourth Edition
Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp
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The American Short Story [59 stories]
Thomas K. Parkes, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fiction 100
James H. Pickering, Fiódor Dostoievski
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
The Norton Introduction to Fiction--Fourth Edition
Jerome Beaty, Spencer Holst
Fiction, A Pocket Anthology--Fifth Edition
R.S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
R. V. Cassill, Ernest Hemingway
40 Short Stories--Fifth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Campfire Legends
Long, John, John Lutz
Fictions--Second Edition
Joseph F. Trimmer, C. Wade Jennings
Literature--second Edition
James H. Pickering, Jeffrey D. Hoeper
The Realm of Fiction - 61 Short Stories
James B. Hall, Fiódor Dostoievski
American 24-Karat Gold
Yvonne Collioud Sisko, Kate Chopin
Perrine's Story and Structure--Tenth Edition
Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson