American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction

by Dale Bailey

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When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. "The House of Usher" and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:087972790X

ISBN13:9780879727901

Release Date:December 1999

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:156 Pages

Weight:0.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Classics Criticism & Theory Genre Fiction History & Criticism Horror Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods

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