โ Scribed by Bill Bowers
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A ghoulish collection of true American classics
With frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Will Cather, and long forgotten yet terrifying authors, this ghostly collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales we love to read about--all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons Press's outstanding Americana library.
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The colt-Adams affair (1842) -- Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge (1847) -- The bloody Benders family (1870s) -- The Lamana kidnapping and the New Orleans Black Hand -- The murder of Grace Mae Brown -- The Mansfield Walworth parricide -- Laura Bullion and the wild bunch -- Henrietta Robinson, the veiled murd
Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, "The Killers." Othe
Thumb Rivera is in a bind. A college dropout, aspiring writer, smalltime marijuana grower, and biker club hang-around, Thumb finds himself confined to his rural ranch house in the desolate Maine countryside, helpless to do anything but watch as his former friends and housemates scheme behind his bac
In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of *Writing to Save a Life*, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel
American history mixes with legend in four classic ghost tales for Step 4 early readers: a Cape Cod ghost horse that leads ships away from danger; a portrait that protests being moved within Virginia's Shirley Plantation museum; a Colorado miner who continued to look for love even after his bones we
A choice collection of 13 short stories from some of America's greatest women writers. Includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "Transcendental Wild Oats" by Louisa May Alcott, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and many