American Gothic, page 99
For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.
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Index of Titles and First Lines
“Alice Doane’s Appeal”
“Annabel Lee”
“A vanished house that for an hour I knew”
“Barry Holden”
“Bell in the Fog, The”
“Bell-Tower, The”
“By a route obscure and lonely”
“Cask of Amontillado, The”
“Chinnubbie and the Owl”
“Circumstance”
“City in the Sea, The”
“Dark House, The”
“Death of Halpin Frayser, The”
“Désirée’s Baby”
“Dream-Land”
“Dumb Witness, The”
“Eyes, The”
“Facts in the Case of M. Valedemar, The”
“Fall of the House of Usher, The”
“Foreigner, The”
“Giant Wisteria, The”
“Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal”
“Her Story”
“Hop-Frog”
“House That Was Not, The”
“Idiosyncrasies”
“I felt a Funeral, In my Brain”
“If I may have it, when it’s dead”
“Inhabitant of Carcosa, An”
“In the Court of the Dragon”
“It was many and many a year ago”
“Jean-Ah Poquelin”
“Lauth”
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The”
Letters from an American Farmer
“Lisette and Eileen”
“Little Room, The”
“Lo! Death has reared himself a throne”
“Luella Miller”
“Luke Havergal”
“Lynching of Jube Benson, The”
“Mill, The”
“Monster, The”
“Much as he left it when he went from us”
“My Visitation”
“Nancy Knapp”
Notable Exploit; Wherein, Dux Faemina Facti, A [The Narrative of Hannah Dustan]
“Old Woman Magoun”
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”
“One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –”
“Outsider, The”
Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall, The
“Raven, The”
“Samuel”
“Sheriff’s Children, The”
“Skeleton in Armor, The”
“Somnambulism”
“Souvenir”
“Speak! Speak! thou fearful guest”
“Struggle for Life, A”
Surprising Account of the Discovery of a Lady …, A
“Talking Bones”
“The Miller’s wife had waited long”
“The skies they were ashen and sober”
“The Soul has Bandaged moments”
“The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp”
“Through lane it lay – thro’ bramble –”
“‘Tis so appalling – it exhilarates –”
“Trial of Martha Carrier, The”
“Tryal of G. B, The”
Turn of the Screw, The
“‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch”
“Ulalume – a Ballad”
“Well, don’t you see this was the way of it”
“What mystery pervades a well!”
“Where a faint light shines alone”
“When he was here alive, Eileen”
“Whisper in the Dark, A”
“Why He Was There”
“Yellow Wall-Paper, The”
“Young Goodman Brown”
Index to the Introductions and Footnotes
Abraham (Bible)
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
Ady, Thomas
A Candle in the Dark
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius
Ahab (Moby-Dick)
Albertus Magnus, Saint
Alcott, Bronson
Alcott, Louisa May
and Emerson
and Gilman
and Hawthorne
and Poe
and Thoreau
Alien (movie)
Allan, John (Poe’s stepfather)
“Amber Gods, The” (Spofford)
Amelia (Fielding)
Amina (Queen)
André, John
Anonymous
“Talking Bones”
Antinous (favorite of Roman emperor Hadrian)
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Arcadia (Sidney)
Arkham Press
Arnold, Benedict
Astarte (Phoenician goddess)
Athena, Pallas
Atherton, Gertrude
and Franklin
and Hawthorne
and James
Patience Sparhawk and Her Times
Splendid, Idle Forties, The
and Wharton
Atlantic Monthly
Babel, Tower of (Bible)
Baker, Dorothy Z.
Beloved (Morrison)
Bendixen, Alfred
Bible
Bierce, Ambrose
and Chambers
and Hawthorne
and Lovecraft
and Poe
Book of Common Prayer
Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Shirley
Villette
Brown, Charles Brockden
Arthur Mervyn
Edgar Huntly
Wieland
Browning, Robert
“Garden Fancies: The Flower’s Name”
Bruno, Giordano
Burroughs, George (accused witch)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
The Giaour
Cable, George Washington
Cain (Bible)
Candle in the Dark, A (Ady)
Carrier, Martha (accused witch)
Carthage
“Castle of Indolence, The” (Thompson)
Century Magazine
Chambers, Robert W.
and Bierce
King in Yellow, The
and Lovecraft
Chesnutt, Charles
Conjure Woman, The
and H. C. Lewis
Marrow of Tradition, The
and B. T. Washington
Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, The
Chicago Tribune
Chopin, Kate
Awakening, The
Clemens, Samuel L.
and Louisa May Alcott
and Crane
and Lippard
Clemm, Virginia (Poe’s wife)
Cleopatra
Cloyse, Sarah (accused witch)
Conjure Woman, The (Chesnutt)
Cooke, Rose Terry
and Poe
Corey, Giles (accused witch)
Corey, Martha (accused witch)
Crane, Stephen
and Clemens
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Red Badge of Courage, The
and Robinson
Crucible, The (Miller)
Daniel (Bible)
David (Bible)
Deborah (Bible)
Diana (Roman goddess)
Dickinson, Emily
and Poe
Dionysius
disease
Dorson, Richard
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
and Henry Clay Lewis
“Sympathy”
and Wright brothers
Dunsany, Lord
and Lovecraft
East Lynne (Wood)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
and Louisa May Alcott
“Hermione”
“Merops”
Erdrich, Louise
and Posey
Erlich, Gloria
erlking, the
Esther (Bible)
Ethan Frome (Wharton)
“Eye, The” (Wharton)
Faerie Queene, The (Spenser)
“Fair Margaret and Sweet William” (ballad)
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
Fielding, Henry
Amelia
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Magazine
Franklin, Benjamin
and Atherton
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
and Jewett
“Old Woman Magoun”
Freud, Sigmund
“Garden Fancies: The Flower’s Name” (Browning)
Gaule, John
Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcrafts
