[UPDATED to inlcude both volumes. Thanks, F.]
Here are the contents of The Library of America’s upcoming 2-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub:
American Fantastic Tales, Volume 1: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
- “Somnambulism: A Fragment” by Charles Brockden Brown
- “The Adventure of the German Student” by Washington Irving
- “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The Tartarus of Maids” by Herman Melville
- “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien
- “The Legend of Monte del Diablo” by Bret Harte
- “The Moonstone Mass” by Harriet Prescott Spofford
- “His Unconquerable Enemy” by W. C. Morrow
- “In Dark New England Days” by Sarah Orne Jewett
- “The Yellow Wall Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “The Black Dog” by Stephen Crane
- “Ma’ame Pélagie” by Kate Chopin
- “Thurlow’s Christmas Story” by John Kendrick Bangs
- “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers
- “The Dead Valley” by Ralph Adams Cram
- “The Little Room” by Madeline Yale Wynne
- “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton
- “An Itinerant House” by Emma Francis Dawson
- “Luella Miller” by Mary Wilkins Freeman
- “Grettir at Thorhall-stead” by Frank Norris
- “Yuki-Onna” by Lafcadio Hearn
- “For the Blood Is the Life” by F. Marion Crawford
- “The Moonlit Road” by Ambrose Bierce
- “Lukundoo” by Edward Lucas White
- “The Shell of Sense” by Olivia Howard Dunbar
- “The Jolly Corner” by Henry James
- “Golden Baby” by Alice Brown
- “Afterward” by Edith Wharton
- “Consequences” by Willa Cather
- “The Shadowy Third” by Ellen Glasgow
- “Absolute Evil” by Julian Hawthorne
- “Unseen-Unfeared” by Francis Stevens
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “The Curse of Everard Maundy” by Seabury Quinn
- “The King of the Cats” by Stephen Vincent Benét
- “The Jelly-Fish” by David H. Keller
- “Mr. Arcularis” by Conrad Aiken
- “The Black Stone” by Robert E. Howard
- “Passing of a God” by Henry S. Whitehead
- “The Panelled Room” by August Derleth
- “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H. P. Lovecraft
- “Genius Loci” by Clark Ashton Smith
- “The Cloak” by Robert Bloch
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American Fantastic Tales, Volume 2: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
- “Evening Primrose” by John Collier (1940)
- “Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber (1941)
- “Mysteries of the Joy Rio” by Tennessee Williams (1941)
- “The Refugee” by Jane Rice (1943)
- “Mr. Lupescu” by Anthony Boucher (1945)
- “Miriam” by Truman Capote (1945)
- “Midnight” by Jack Snow (1947)
- “Torch Song” by John Cheever (1947)
- “I’m Scared” by Jack Finney (1948)
- “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson (1949)
- “The Circular Valley” by Paul Bowles (1950)
- “The April Witch” by Ray Bradbury (1952)
- “Black Country” by Charles Beaumont (1954)
- “The Vane Sisters” by Vladimir Nabokov (1959)
- “Trace” by Jerome Bixby (1964)
- “Where the Woodbine Twineth” by Davis Grubb (1964)
- “Nightmare” by Donald Wandrei (1965)
- “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison (1967)
- “Prey” by Richard Matheson (1969)
- “Events at Poroth Farm” by T.E.D. Klein (1972)
- “Hanka” by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1974)
- “Linneaus Forgets” by Fred Chappell (1977)
- “Novelty” by John Crowley (1983)
- “Mr. Fiddlehead” by Jonathan Carroll (1989)
- “Family” by Joyce Carol Oates (1989)
- “The Last Feast of Harlequin” by Thomas Ligotti (1990)
- “A Short Guide to the City” by Peter Straub (1990)
- “The General Who Is Dead” by Jeff VanderMeer (1996)
- “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French” by Stephen King (1998)
- “The Long Hall on the Top Floor” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (1999)
- “Sea Oak” by George Saunders (2000)
- “Nocturne” by Thomas Tessier (2000)
- “The God of Dark Laughter” by Michael Chabon (2001)
- “Pop Art” by Joe Hill (2001)
- “Pansu” by Poppy Z. Brite (2003)
- “Dangerous Laughter” by Steven Millhauser (2003)
- “The Chambered Fruit” by M. Rickert (2003)
- “The Wavering Knife” by Brian Evenson (2004)
- “Stone Animals” by Kelly Link (2004)
- “Pat Moore” by Tim Powers (2004)
- “The Little Stranger” by Gene Wolfe (2004)
- “Dial Tone” by Benjamin Percy (2007)
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[via Jeff VanderMeer]
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that’s the table of contents for volume two of American Fantastic Tales (the one including VanderMeer’s story, of course). you can see volume one’s here:
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=308§ion=toc
Thanks, F! Post updated.
This is most COOL! Thanks for the post.