Contents:
PART I: BEING WATCHED AND WATCHING
• The Giant Wistaria (1891) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Malhalla’s Revenge • Joanna E. Wood
• The Eyes of the Panther (1897) • Ambrose Bierce
• The Right-Hand Road • Anonymous
• The Haunted House • John G. Whittier
• Three Nights in a Haunted House • J. Warren Newcomb, Jr.
• A Night in Monk-Hall (excerpt from The Quaker City, 1844) • George Lippard
• A Story of the White Mountain Notch • E. P. King
PART II: BLURRED VISIONS
• Désirée’s Baby (1893) • Kate Chopin
• Young Goodman Brown (1835) • Nathaniel Hawthorne
• An Illusion in Red and White • Stephen Crane
• Lost • Philander Deming
• Jean-ah Poquelin (1875) • George Washington Cable
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1819) • Washington Irving
PART III: MIRROR IMAGES
• The Yellow Sign (1895) • Robert Chambers
• The Hollow of the Three Hills (1830) • Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Though One Rose from the Dead (1903) • William Dean Howells
• A Story of a Shadow (1872) • Rebecca Harding Davis
• A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844) • Edgar Allan Poe
PART IV: THE INWARD GAZE
• Mrs. Manstey’s View (1891) • Edith Wharton
• Manacled (1900) • Stephen Crane
• A Strange Death • Anonymous
• The Diamond Lens (1858) • Fitz-James O’Brien
• Her Story • Harriet Prescott Spofford
• The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman