American Gothic Tales

10 best books like American Gothic Tales (Joyce Carol Oates): Dragonlance Chronicles, The Dark Descent, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, On Poetry And Poets, The Sea and the Mirror, The Dyer's Hand, The King in Yellow, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

Dragonlance Chronicles

Author	Margaret Weis
ISBN	0880386525

CONCEPT: A group of adventurers are chosen to help drive back the Evil from another world led by the Dark Queen.

MARKETING APPEAL: The DRAGONLANCE chronicles had the whole AD&D industry behind them; TSR used this tale as a marketing ploy, using their fans and game designers (to set up the...

The Dark Descent

Author	David G. Hartwell
ISBN	0312862172

This highly acclaimed anthology traces the evolution of horror, from Nathaniel Hawthorn and Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King. Adopted by colleges across the country to be used in literature courses, The Dark Descent showcases some of the finest horror fiction ever written.

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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Author	Phyllis Fraser
ISBN	0679601287

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in...

Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry

Author	Laurence Perrine
ISBN	0155826107

Sound and Sense in a nutshell:

Poetry is deep and thought-provoking. Let me tell you exactly how and what you're supposed to think about it.

No, sorry, it doesn't work that way. Telling me what to think kills the process of allowing me to think for myself, and I feel like that defeats the...

Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry

Author	David Mason
ISBN	0072819596

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into...

On Poetry And Poets

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0571089836

My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...

The Sea and the Mirror

Author	W.H. Auden
ISBN	0691123845

Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception...

The Dyer's Hand

Author	W.H. Auden
ISBN	0679724842

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation...

The King in Yellow

Author

Robert W. Chambers

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5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations".

although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America where on-lookers gather to contemplate...

The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0674931505

The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of Eliot's critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition...