Colonial Horrors

Colonial Horrors

The most spine-tingling suspense stories from the colonial eraâ€”including Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and H. P. Lovecraftâ€”are presented anew to the contemporary reader.

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the Colonial eraâ€™s stifling religion and its dark and threatening woods.

Today the best-known tale of Colonial horror is Washington Irvingâ€™s â€œThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow,â€ although Irvingâ€™s story is probably best-known today from various movie versions it has inspired. Colonial horror tales of other prominent American authorsâ€”Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper among themâ€”are overshadowed by their bestsellers and are difficult to find in modern libraries. Many other pioneers of American horror fiction are presented afresh in this breathtaking volume for todayâ€™s reading public.

Some will have heard the names of Increase and Cotton Mather in association with the Salem witch trials, but will not have sought out their contemporary accounts of what were viewed as supernatural events. By bringing these writers to the attention of the contemporary reader, the book will help bring their namesâ€”and their workâ€”back from the dead.
Featuring stories byÂ Cotton Mather, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many more.Â
Country USA
Manufacturer Pegasus Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-10-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Pegasus Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-10-03
Format	Kindle eBook

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