Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) 

CHAPMAN, Mary. “The Masochistic Pleasures of the Gothic: Paternal Incest in Alcott’s ‘A Marble Woman’” (pp. 183-201). In The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative, eds. R.K. Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: University Iowa Press, 1998.

DERRICKSON, Teresa. “Race and the Gothic Monster: The Xenophobic Impulse of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Taming a Tartar.’” American Transcendental Quarterly 15 (2001): 43-58.

DOUGLAS, Ann. “Mysteries of Louisa May Alcott.” [GGII: 1232].

ESTES, Angela M. “Dismembering the Text: The Horror of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.” [GGII: 12-33].

FRANKLIN, Rosemary F. “Louisa May Alcott’s Father(s) and ‘The Marble Woman.’” American Transcendental Quarterly 13 (1999): 253-68.

KLIMASMITH, Betsy. “Slave, Master, Mistress, Slave: Genre and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott’s Fiction.” American Transcendental Quarterly 11 new series. (1997): 115-35.

ROSTENBERG, Leona. “Some Anonymous and Pseudonymous Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott.” [GGII: 1262] 

STERN, Madeleine B. “Introduction.” To Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. [GGII: 1456]. 

STERN, Madeleine B. “Introduction.” To Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. [GGII: 14-57] 

STERN, Madeleine B. Louisa May Alcott: From Blood and Thunder to Hearth and Home. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. Reprinting of various essays by Madeleine Stern on Alcott’s horror fiction. 

Washington Allston (1779-1843) 

CARSO, Kerry Dean. “Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:2 (2001): 364.

Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) 

ANDREWS, William L. The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt. [GGI: 1722]

COOPER, Joanna. "Gothic Impurity: Race, Sex, and the Uncanny in American Literature, 1895-1905." Dissertation Abstracts International 66:5 (2005): 1766 (Temple University)

HEMENWAY, Robert. “Gothic Sociology: Charles Chesnutt and the Gothic Mode.” [GGI: 1723].

IANOVICI, Gerald. “‘A Living Death’: Gothic Signification and the Nadir in The Marrow of the Tradition.” Melus 27:4 (2002): 33-60. The Marrow of the Tradition (1901) “refashions The Conjure Woman’s debunking of the plantation myth to expose the terrors unleashed in the white supremacist campaign to regain Paradise Lost. Gothic tropes figure crucially in the novelization of the nadir as a reconstituted slavery.”

Hannah Craft (0000-0000)

HASLAM, Jason. "'The strange ideas of right and justice': Prison, Slavery, and Other Horrors in The Bondwoman's Narrative." Gothic Studies 7 (2005): 29-40.

TOWNSHEND, Dale "Speaking of Darkness: Gothic and the History of the African American Slave Woman in Hannah Craft's The Bondwoman's Narrative (1855-1861)." (pp. 141-54). In Victorian Gothic, eds. Katherine Sayer & Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds, UK: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, 2003.

Stephen Crane (1871-1895)

LOLORDO, Nick. “Possessed by the Gothic: Ste-phen Crane’s ‘The Monster.’” Arizona Quarterly 57:2 (2001): 33-56. Crane combines ugly realism with Gothic effects and characterization to empower the narrative 

MORRIS, James Kelly. “Stephen Crane and the Gothic Tradition.” [GGII: 1254].

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

RAMBO, Shari Fuller. “A Literary Offense?: Overlooked Gothic elements in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans.” Master’s Thesis, Radford University, 1988. Some of the absurdities mocked by Twain in his famous essay show Cooper’s stylistic attention to building terror in the novel.

RINGE, Donald A. “The Bravo: Social Criticism in the Gothic Mode.” James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art 20 (1996): 124-32. Comments on Cooper’s use of such Gothic motifs as secret tribunals and societies in The Bravo (1831).

ST. ARMAND, Barton Levi. “Harvey Birch as the Wandering Jew: Literary Calvinism in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy.” [GGI: 2313]. 

Richard Henry Dana Sr. (1787-1879)

HUNTER, Doreen. “America’s First Romantics: Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Washington Allston.” [GGI: 1832].

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

LACHMAN, Lilach. “‘Suspense Is His Maturer Sister’: Time Fear and Audience in Dickinson’s Gothic Dra-ma.” Gothic Studies 3 (2001): 61-74.

PARDO, Amy Jo. “‘Out of the Attic’: The Gothic Mode in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Ros-setti.” Dissertation Abstracts International 57:6 (1996): 2468A (University of Alabama).

WARDROP, Daneen L. “Goblin with a Gauge: Language and Gothicism in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” [GGII: 1276].

WARDROP, Daneen L. “‘Goblin with a Gauge’: Dickinson’s Readerly Gothic.” [GGII: 1277].

WARDROP, Daneen L. Emily Dickinson’s Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 1996.

WARDROP, Daneen L. “Emily Dickinson’s Gothic Wedding: Dowered Bride and Absent Groom.” American Transcendental Quarterly 10:2 (1996): 91-110.

Frederic Douglass (0000-0000)

BODZIOCK, Joseph. "The Cage of Obscene Birds: The Myth of the Southern Garden in Frederic Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom." (pp. 251-63) in The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, eds. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.

William Dunlap (1766-1839) 

Jonathan Edwards (1704-1758 

WILCZYNSKI, Marek. “From Edwards to Slosson: Typology, Nature, and the New England Domestic Gothic.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (2001): 303-10.

George Washington Harris (1814-1869)

FISHER, Benjamin Franklin IV. “George Washington Harris and Supernaturalism.” [GGII: 1235]. 

FISHER, Benjamin Franklin IV. “George Washington Harris and Supernaturalism” (pp. 176-89). In Sut Lovingood’s Nat’ral Born Yard-spinner: Essays on George Washington Harris, eds. James E. Caron and M. Thomas Inge. Tuscaloosa, AL: Alabama University Press, 1996.

PARK, Martha. M. “Archibald Malmaison: Julian Hawthorne’s Contribution to Gothic Fiction.” [GGI: 1837].

SALMONSON, Jessica. “Gothic Magician: The Life and Supernatural Tales of Julian Hawthorne” (pp. 5-47). In The Rose of Death and Other Mysterious Delusions. Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press, 1997.

STABLEFORD, Brian. “HAWTHORNE, Julian” (pp. 258-59). In St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, and Ghost Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press, 1998.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

CARLISLE, Timothy Charles. “Naming the Terror; The Medical Narratives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Carlos Williams, and Walker Percy.” Dissertation Abstracts International 52:10 (1992): 3601A (Washington State University).

GREESON, Jennifer Ray. “The ‘Mysteries and Miseries’ of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” American Literature 73 (2001): 277-309.

WARDROP, Daneen. "'What Tangled Skeins Are the Genealogies of Slavery!': Gothic Families in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Cultural Studies 14:1-2 (2002): 23-43.

James Madison (1751-1836)

THOMPSON, Helen. “Gothic Numbers in the New Republic: The Federalist No. 10 and Its Spectral Factions” (pp. 140-60).  In Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography, eds. Glennis Byron and David Punter. Houndmills, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan. 1999;  New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1999.

James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) 

FISHER, Benjamin F. “James Kirke Paulding’s Gothicism and American Literary Nationalism.” Gothic Studies 1 (1999): 31-46.

BRUSKY, Sarah. "Nancy Prince and Her Gothic Odyssey: A Veiled Lady." (pp. 167-80). In Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing. ed. Christi Siegel. New York: Peter Lang. 2004.

William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) 

FISHER, Benjamin F. “Simms’s Bosky Gothic: The ‘Region of Doubt and Shadow.’” Studies in the Novel 35 (2003): 157-77.

FISHER, Benjamin F.. “‘To Shadow Forth Its Presence’: Simms’s Gothic Narrative Poems.” Southern Quarterly 41:2 (2003): 60-72. 

JETT, Kevin W. “A Seductive Plea from the Gallows: Reconsidering William Gilmore Simms’s Martin Fa-ber.” Mississippi Quarterly 52 (1999): 559-66.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 

HALTTUNEN, Karen. “Gothic Imagination and Social Reform: The Haunted Houses of Lyman Beecher, Hen-ry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.” In New Essays on Uncle Tom’s Cabin. [GGII: 1239]. 

Mark Twain (1836-1910) 

Susan Bogert Warner (1819-1885)