3 by 3: Masterworks of the Southern Gothic

Introduction -- Lewis P. Simpson BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD & OTHER STORIES -- DORIS BETTS The Ugliest Pilgrim Hitchhiker The Mother-in-Law Beasts of the Southern Wild Burning the Bed Still Life with Fruit The Glory of His Nostrils The Spider Gardens of Madagascar Benson Watts is Dead and in Virginia MCAFEE COUNTY: A CHRONICLE -- MARK STEADMAN Mr. McAllister's Cigarette Holder Lee Jay's Chinese-box Mystery The Dreamer John Fletcher's Night of Love Daddy's Girl Smoaks, Deering, Maggie Poat, and the Shark After John Henry Annie's Love Child John Henry's Promise Dorcus and the Fat Lady Anse Starkey at Rest A Worker of Miracles Some Notes on McAfee County THE BLACK PRINCE & OTHER STORIES -- SHIRLEY ANN GRAU White Girl, Fine Girl The Black Prince Miss Yellow Eyes The Girl with the Flaxen Hair The Bright Day Fever Flower The Way of a Man One Summer Joshua