Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories Hardcover – January 1, 1990
edited by Marvin Kaye
 
American ghosts and hauntings abound in this collection of blood-red, bone-white, and cold-blue stories. You'll meet the ghost of George Washington, the headless horseman of Paoli, a haunted football game, and a man who collects Poe. The Mudville ballplayer, Casey, gets a chance to redeem himself. A drunken cowboy commits murder and is brought to justice, but not by judge and jury. And a in a dark Boston museum, scientists attempt to reanimate an ancient mummy. The all star authors include Issac Asimov, L. Frank Baum, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Willa Cather, Helen Eustis, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Lieber, Washington Irving, Richard Matheson, Ogden Nash, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. These classic and contemporary tales are drawn from five broad regions of the United States: New England, the East, the South, the West, and the Midwest. There's also "The Midnight Tourist's Guide to Haunted America," a specially compiled directory to haunted sites in each of the fifty states.
 
Contents:
NEW ENGLAND : The triumph of night / Edith Wharton --
The white old maid / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Victoria / Ogden Nash --
The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft --
The problem of the pilgrims windmill / Edward Hoch --
The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James --
Bones / Donald Wollheim --
The vacant lot / Mary Freeman --
THE EAST : A curious dream / Mark Twain --
The man who collected Poe / Robert Bloch --
Guests from Gibbet Island / Washington Irving --
Our late visitor / Marvin Kaye --
The girl with the beckoning eyes / Bernhardt Hurwood --
Ghosts / Don Marquis --
The ghost of Washington / Anonymous --
The headless horseman of Paoli / Darrell Schweitzer --
Artemisia's mirror / Bertha Runkle --
Unto the fourth generation / Isaac Asimov --
THE SOUTH : The spook house / Ambrose Bierce --
The shot-tower ghost / Mary Counselman --
A tale of the ragged mountains / Edgar Poe --
Come to the party / Frances Garfield --
Nobody ever goes there / Manly Wellman --
Ghost of Buckstown Inn / Arnold M. Anderson --
The stuffed alligator / L. Frank Baum --
The house of the nightmare / Edward White --
The elemental / Frank Long --
We are the dead / Henry Kuttner --
THE WEST : The destruction of Smith / Algernon Blackwood --
The return of the Moresbys / Henry Slesar --
The rider on the pale horse / Helen Eustis --
The glove / Fritz Leiber, Jr. --
Kaena Point / C.H. Sherman --
Atrocities / Jessica Salmonson --
Gibbler's ghost / William Nolan --
They bite / Anthony Boucher --
Miracle at Chimayo / Carole Bugge --
Slaughter house / Richard Matheson --
THE MIDWEST : The dead remember / Robert Howard --
The night the ghost got in / James Thurber --
Dumb supper / Henderson Starke --
The fear that walks by noonday / Willa Cather --
The Chadwick pit / Carl Jacobi --
The Return of Andrew Bentley / August W. Derleth and Mark Schorer --
Away / Barry N. Malzberg --
The Strange Guests / Anonymous --
Another Chance for Casey / Larry Siegel
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