Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories

Introduction NEW ENGLAND The Triumph of Night — Edith Wharton The White Old Maid — Nathaniel Hawthorne Victoria — Ogden Nash The Terrible Old Man — H. P. Lovecraft The Problem of the Pilgrim Windmill — Edward D. Hoch The Romance of Certain Old Clothes — Henry James Bones — Donald A. Wollheim The Vacant Lot — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman THE EAST A Curious Dream — Mark Twain The Man Who Collected Poe — Robert Bloch Guests from Gibbet Island — Washington, Irving Our Late Visitor — Marvin Kaye The Girl with the Beckoning Eyes — Bernhardt J. Hurwood ghosts — don marquis The Ghost of Washington — Anonymous The Headless Horseman of Paoli — Darrell Schweitzer Artemisia's Mirror — Bertha Runkle Unto the Fourth Generation — Isaac Asimov THE SOUTH The Spook House — Ambrose Bierce The Shot-Tower Ghost — Mary Elizabeth Counselman A Tale of the Ragged Mountains — Edgar Allan Poe Come to the Party — Frances Garfield Nobody Ever Goes There — Manly Wade Wellman Ghost of Buckstown Inn — Arnold M. Anderson The Stuffed Alligator — L. Frank Baum The House of the Nightmare — Edward Lucas White The Elemental — Frank Belknap Long We Are the Dead — Henry Kuttner THE WEST The Destruction of Smith — Algernon Blackwood The Return of the Moresbys — Henry Slesar The Rider on the Pale Horse — Helen Eustis The Glove — Fritz Leiber, Jr. Kaena Point — C. H. Sherman Atrocities — Jessica Amanda Salmonson Gibbler's Ghost — William F. Nolan They Bite — Anthony Boucher Miracle at Chimayo — Carole Buggé Slaughter House — Richard Matheson THE MIDWEST The Dead Remember — Robert E. Howard The Night the Ghost Got In — James Thurber Dumb Supper — Henderson Starke The Fear That Walks by Noonday — Willa Cather The Chadwick Pit — Carl Jacobi The Return of Andrew Bentley — August W. Derleth and Mark Schorer Away — Barry N. Malzberg The Strange Guests — Anonymous Another Chance for Casey — Larry Siegel Appendix: The Midnight Tourist's Guide to Haunted America Acknowledgments