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The American fantasy tradition

This anthology of American fantasy literature, applies the critical theorems of such esteemed American literacy critics as Leslie Fiedler, Richard Chase and Irving Howe to the genre of fantasy in an effort to delineate the true American tradition of fantasy from the Anglo-European canon.
Print Book, English, 2002
T. Doherty Associates, New York, 2002
Fantasy fiction
604 p. ; 25 cm.
9780765301529, 0765301520
1004901305
Foreword
Introduction : An approach to an American fantasy tradition
Rip Van Winkle / W. Irving
Feathertop : a moralized legend / N. Hawthorne
Uncle Remus / J. C. Harris
The saga of Pecos Bill / E. O'Reilly
Rosy's journey / L. M. Alcott
The yellow sign / R. W. Chambers
The shadow over Innsmouth / H. P. Lovecraft
O ugly bird! / M. W. Wellman
The fool / D. Drake
Narrow valley / R. A. Lafferty
Jackalope / A. D. Foster
The lottery / S. Jackson
Children of the corn / S. King
Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight / U. K. Le Guin
The jolly corner / H. James
A ghost story / M. Twain
The other lodgers / A. Bierce
Ma'ame Pelagie / K. Chopin
The devil and Daniel Webster / S. V. Benét
The valley was still / M. W. Wellman
The howling man / C. Beaumont
Twenty-three / A. Davidson
We are dead / H. Kuttner
Where the summer ends / K. E. Wagner
Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa / W. P. Kinsella
Hatrack River / O. S. Card
The hero of the night / B. Denton
The whimper of whipped dogs / H. Ellison
The girffin and the minor canon / F. Stockton
The enchanted buffalo / L. Frank Baum
The yellow wallpaper / C. P. Gilman
The moving finger / E. Wharton
Slow sculpture / T. Sturgeon
The coin collector / J. Finney
Prey / R. Matheson
The Geezenstacks / F. Brown
Paladin of the lost hour / H. Ellison
The black Ferris / R. Bradbury
Bed & breakfast / G. Wolfe
Dead run / G. Bear
Her pilgrim soul / A. Brennert
Mrs. Todd's shortcut / S. King
Among the handlers / M. Bishop
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