Stories of the Modern South

By Various

Some of the greatest storytellers of our time chronicle twentieth-century southern life.   Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the literature of the modern South is a vital amalg...

American Gothic Tales

By William Goyen, Gertrude Atherton, Various, Barry N Malzberg, Stephen King, August Derleth, E. B. White, Charles Johnson, W S Merwin, Robert Coover, Raymond Carver, Anne Rice, Ursula K. Le Guin, Henry James, WILLIAM FAULKNER, Ambrose Bierce, Steven Millhauser, H P Lovecraft, Paul Bowles, John Cheever, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicholson Baker, Ray Bradbury, John Crowley, Peter STRAUB, Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Melissa Pritchard, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harlan Ellison, Katherine Dunn, Kathe Koja, Shirley Jackson, Breece D'J Pancake, John L'Heureux, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Nancy Etchemendy, Washington Irving, E. L. Doctorow, Lisa Tuttle, Bruce McAllister, Thomas Ligotti, Edited By Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the gothic in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able t...

Arcadio

By Goyen

William Goyen

By William Goyen, Robert Phillips, Robert S. Phillips

By Robert Phillips. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 145-153.

Geist und Fleisch

By

Arcadio

By William Goyen

The House Of Breath

By William Goyen, Gibbons, Reginald, Goyen, William

Goyen passes on traditional conventions of plot and character. The House of Breath is an address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in small Texas town, Charity. T...