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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

Peter Straub

First published 2009
Publisher The Library of America
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Fredrik Broden & Renee Rhyner
Pages xv+713
Price $35.00
ISBN 9781598530483

  • Stated "First Printing. The Library of America—197". Please see the Bibliographic Comments for a full extract of the copyright page.
  • The publisher is stated as "The Library of America" on the title page.
  • No Canadian price.
  • The jacket artwork is photographs credited on the back flap as "Jacket photographs by Fredrik Broden / Renee Rhyner & Company (front) and Ern Mainka / Alamy (back)".
  • This is volume 197 in The Library of America series. It is available in a boxed edition with the first volume (196) or separately.
  • The story Evening Primrose by John Collier on page 1 is listed in the table of contents as being on page 7. It is on page 1.
  • The story The General Who Is Dead by Jeff VanderMeer on page 401 uses "Is" with an upper-case "I" in the title.
  • The story The Long Hall on the Top Floor by Caitlín R. Kiernan on page 447 is credited as by Caitlín Kiernan in the table of contents. The full name is used in the body of the publication.

Searching by ISBN: 9781598530483

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Evening Primrose John Collier Short Story
12 Smoke Ghost Fritz Leiber Short Story
29 The Mysteries of the Joy Rio Tennessee Williams Short Story
41 The Refugee Jane Rice Short Story
56 Mr. Lupescu Anthony Boucher Short Story
61 Miriam Truman Capote Short Story
73 Midnight Jack Snow Short Story
79 Torch Song John Cheever Short Story
96 The Daemon Lover Shirley Jackson Short Story
112 The Circular Valley Paul Bowles Short Story
121 I'm Scared Jack Finney Short Story
134 The Vane Sisters Vladimir Nabokov Short Story
148 The April Witch Ray Bradbury Short Story
158 Black Country Charles Beaumont Short Story
179 Trace Jerome Bixby Short Story
183 Where the Woodbine Twineth Davis Grubb Short Story
192 Nightmare Donald Wandrei Short Story
197 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison Short Story
213 Prey Richard Matheson Short Story
225 The Events at Poroth Farm T. E. D. Klein Novella
272 Hanka Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story
289 Linnaeus Forgets Fred Chappell Short Story
305 Novelty John Crowley Short Story
322 Mr. Fiddlehead Jonathan Carroll Short Story
335 Family Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
351 The Last Feast of Harlequin Thomas Ligotti Novelette
389 A Short Guide to the City Peter Straub Short Story
401 The General Who Is Dead Jeff VanderMeer Short Story
406 That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French Stephen King Short Story
423 Sea Oak George Saunders Novelette
447 The Long Hall on the Top Floor Caitlín R. Kiernan Short Story
459 Nocturne Thomas Tessier Short Story
463 The God of Dark Laughter Michael Chabon Short Story
483 Pop Art Joe Hill Novelette
504 Pansu Poppy Z. Brite Short Story
512 Dangerous Laughter Steven Millhauser Short Story
528 The Chambered Fruit M. Rickert Novelette
563 The Wavering Knife Brian Evenson Short Story
579 Stone Animals Kelly Link Novelette
623 Pat Moore Tim Powers Novelette
655 The Little Stranger Gene Wolfe Novelette
673 Dial Tone Benjamin Percy Short Story
687 Biographical Notes (American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now) uncredited Essay
703 Note on the Texts (American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now) uncredited Essay
708 Notes (American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now) uncredited Essay
xi Introduction (American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now) Peter Straub Essay