📱 eBook en inglés AMERICAN MIDNIGHT

A collection of chilling tales from the dark heart of American literature
A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a strange nocturnal ritual in the woods; a black bobcat howling in the night: these ten tales are some of the most strange and unsettling in all of American literature, filled with unforgettable imagery and simmering with tension. From Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Zora Neale Hurston, the authors of these classics of supernatural suspense have inspired generations of writers to explore the dark heart of the land of the free.
The stories in this collection have been selected and introduced by Laird Hunt, an author of seven acclaimed novels which explore the shadowy corners of American history.
Contains:The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan PoeYoung Goodman Brown, Nathaniel HawthorneThe Eyes, Edith WhartonThe Mask, Robert ChambersHome, Shirley JacksonA Ghost Story, Mark TwainSpunk, Zora Neale HurstonThe Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins GilmanAn Itinerant House, Emma Frances Dawson
Laird Hunt is an American writer and translator. He has written seven novels, including Neverhome, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice selection, an IndieNext selection, winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and The Bridge prize, and a finalist for the Prix Femina Étranger. His In the House in the Dark of the Woods is also available from Pushkin Press. A resident of Boulder, CO, he is on the faculty in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver.