Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories

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