American Gothic Fiction & Film
Explore the eerie world of American Gothic fiction and film with our curated list of haunting books and chilling movies. Discover dark tales, psychological horror, and supernatural classics that define the genre.
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Murder Most Foul
by Karen Halttunen
In this text, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public executions, through to the true …
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Indiana Gothic
by Pope Brock
The lines between fiction and nonfiction have become increasingly blurred, but in journalist Pope Brock's first book, about murder and adultery in his family, everything …
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Charles Brockden Brown: Three Gothic Novels (LOA #103)
by Charles Brockden Brown
An elderly mystic dies of spontaneous combustion in a secret temple. A young man is haunted by voices instructing him to slaughter his wife and …
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A Passion for Consumption
by Anna Sonser
"By exposing the literary motifs of subversion and seduction inherent in these works as disruptive to the flow, circulation, and expansion of value, A Passion …
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American Gothic Tales
by Various
This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes …
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Tales and Sketches
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
An authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches in a single comprehensive volume.
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Behind a Mask
by Louisa May Alcott
Six years before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, in financial straits, entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not …
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce
Treasury of ninety-three short works includes horror stories, realistic narratives of war, and tall tales of the old West
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across …
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Wisconsin Death Trip
by Michael Lesy
A shocking portrait of a small town crumbling--socially, morally, physically and emotionally--under the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This "cult classic" is …
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
by Edith Wharton
One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but …
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American Gothic
by Robert K. Martin
American Gothic, however, remaps the field by offering a series of revisionist essays associated with a common theme: the range and variety of Gothic manifestations …
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Gothic Passages
by Justin D. Edwards
By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of “race” and the rhetoric of racial difference …