Witches, Wraiths & Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance

Introduction Folk Tales Enchantments Encounter'd Cotton Mather Old Deb and Other Old Colony Witches William Root Bliss Gen. Andrew Jackson: The Great Soldier and Stateman's Visit to the Bell Witch M. V. Ingram The Cat-Witch Richard M. Dorson The Witch Dance on the Brocken Frederick Gottschalck The Leeds Devil Charles M. Skinner Stolen Fire Virginia Frazer Boyle Seeing the Devil in Three Shapes Richard M. Dorson Jonathan Moulton and the Devil Samuel Adams Drake Barney Oxman and the Devil Thomas Chandler Haliburton The Death Waltz Charles M. Skinner The Haunted House Richard Chase The Ghost Anon. The Long Sleep Charles M. Skinner The Legend of the Pipe Launcelot Coffined Alive Anon. Popular Literature The Castle of Costanzo Anon. The Parricide Punished Anon. The Wig and the Black Cat Anon. The Witch Miss Elizabeth P. Hall The Veil E. E. The Midnight Voyage of the Seagull Mrs. Volney E. Howard The Sphinx Anon. Tale of a Conjurer Anon. The Enchanter Faustus and Queen Elizabeth Anon. The Dream Anon. The Captive's Dream Anon. The Wooden-legged Ghost John Waters A Ghost Story I. P. A. The Village Doctor Rudolph The Literary Tradition Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe A Ghost Story Mark Twain Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne The Tartarus of Maids Herman Melville Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe The Bell-Tower Herman Melville Bibliography