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From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume anthology demonstrates, it is a tradition with many unexpected detours and hidden chambers, and one that continues to evolve, finding new forms and new themes as it explores the bad dreams that lurk around the edges-if not in the unacknowledged heart-of the everyday. Peter Straub, one of todays masters of horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight.This first volume surveys a century and a half of American fantastic storytelling, revealing in its forty-four stories an array of recurring themes: trance states, sleepwalking, mesmerism, obsession, possession, madness, exotic curses, evil atmospheres. In the tales of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, the bright prospects of the New World face an uneasy reckoning with the forces of darkness. In the ghost-haunted Victorian and Edwardian eras, writers including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ambrose Bierce explore ever more refined varieties of spectral invasion and disintegrating selfhood.In the twentieth century, with the arrival of the era of the pulps, the fantastic took on more monstrous and horrific forms at the hands of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, and other classic contributors to Weird Tales. Here are works by acknowledged masters such as Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Conrad Aiken, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, along with surprising discoveries like Ralph Adams Crams The Dead Valley, Emma Francis Dawsons An Itinerant House, and Julian Hawthornes Absolute Evil.American Fantastic Tales offers an unforgettable ride through strange and visionary realms.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Library of America, 2009-10-01. hardcover. Used: Good.

First printing. A fine copy in a fine slipcase.

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Library of America, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine slipcase..

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100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.

Library of America, 2009-10-01. hardcover. Used:Good.

Library of America, New York, 2009, Hardcover First Edition - so stated. Luscious gathering of fantastic tales from Henry James to Robert Bloch. Book condition: two tiny dusty spots on the top of the text block corner, otherwise As New/Fine and apparently unread. Dustjacket condition: surface scratch on the cover; a few tiny surface scratches on the rear; one pin point of wear on a corner, otherwise Near Fine minus with a Canadian price sticker over the U.S. one - jacket comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve - nice copy!

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Library of America, 2009. Very Good. Straub (editor), Peter. American Fantastic Tales: 2 volume boxed set. Terror and the Uncanny From Poe to the Pulps, and From the 1940s to Now. NY: Library of America, 2009. 746, 713pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Red cloth with maroon ribbons. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped corners and slightly chipped spine head on volume one. In dust jacket protectors. Slipcase has gently rubbed edges.