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James Baldwin (0000-0000)

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William Peter Blatty (1928-  )

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Robert Bloch (1917-1994)

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George Washington Cable (1844-1925)

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BLAKE, Nancy. “Other Voices, Other Rooms: Southern Gothic or Medieval Quest?” [GGI: 1814] 

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Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933)

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F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909)

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ROBILLARD, Douglas. “The Wandering Ghosts of F. Marion Crawford” (pp. 43-57). In American Supernatural Fiction: From Edith Wharton to the Weird Tales Writers. New  York: Garland  Studies  in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Number 6; Garland Publishing, 1996.

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Les Daniels (1943- )

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Dennis Etchison (1943- )

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Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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GLASSER, Leah Blatt. In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

HIRSCH, David H. “Subdued Meaning in ‘A New England Nun.’” Studies in Short Fiction 2 (1965): 124-36.

KARPINSKI, Joanne B. “The Gothic Underpinnings of Realism in the Local Colorists’ No Man’s Land.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in  American Literature. [GGII: 0832]. 

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PATRICK, Barbara. “Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth- Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story” (pp. 73-84). In American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Julie Brown. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.

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WESTBROOK, Perry. Mary Wilkins Freeman. Boston : Twayne, 1988. “Freeman is the supreme analyst of the Puritan will in its constructive strengths, in its aberrations, and in its decadence into mere whim and stubborness.”

William Gaddis (1922- )

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Jim Grimsley (1955-  )

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Thomas Harris (1940-  )

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MESSENT, Peter. “American Gothic: Liminality in Thomas Harris’s  Hannibal  Lecter  Novels.”  Journal  of American and Comparative Cultures 23:4 (2000): 23-35.

Mary Karr (1938-  )

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Russell Kirk (1918-1994) 

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

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KESTLER, Frances. “Gothic Influence of the Grotesque Characters of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” [GGII: 1247]. 

PHILLIPS, Robert S. “The Gothic Architecture of The Member of the Wedding.” [GGI: 1841]. 

PULIDO, Christine C. “Carson McCullers and Russian Realism: A Study of Three Works by Carson McCul-lers.” Master’s Thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

WHATLING, Clare. “Reading Miss Amelia: Critical Strategies in the Construction of Sex, Gender, Sexuality, the Gothic and the Grotesque” (pp. 239-50). In Modern Sexualities, eds. Hugh Stevens and Caroline Howlett. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press 2000.

Barbara Michaels [Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz] (1927-  )

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Toni Morrison (1931- )

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BODNER, Merrill. “Unraveling the Mystery of Toni Morrison’s Beloved” (pp. 168-82). In Trajectories of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

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BRITTON, Wesley. “The Puritan Past and Black Gothic: The Haunting of Toni Morrison’s Beloved in Light of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 21:2 (1995): 7-23.

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GALEHOUSE, Maggie. “New World Woman: Toni Morrison’s Sula.” Papers on Language and Literature 35 (1999): 339-62.

SONSER. Anna M. “Subversion, Seduction, and the Culture of Consumption: The American Gothic Revisited in the Work of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Rice.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:1 (2000): 186 (University of Toronto).

SPAULDING, A. Timothy, “Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and the Legacy of Slavery: Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Gothic Impulse” (xxx). In Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2005.

SPEAREY, Susan. “Substantiating Discourses of Emergence: Corporeality, Spectrality, and Postmodern Historiography in Toni Morrison’s Beloved” (pp. 170-82). In Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality, eds. Avril Horner and Angela Keane. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.

TEETER, N. “The Male Threat in Beloved.” University of Mississippi Studies in English, 11-12 (1993-1995): 11-12, 226-29.

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Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862)

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Sam Shepard (1943- )

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BUSBY, Mark. “Sam Shepard and Frontier Gothic.” In Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. [GGII: 1225]. 

Harriet Spofford (1835-1921)

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ST. ARMAND, Barton Levi. “‘I Must Have Died at Ten Minutes Past One’: Posthumous Reverie in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s The Amber Gods.” In The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920. [GGII: 1273].

Peter Straub (1943- )

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JOSHI, S.T. “STRAUB, Peter (Francis)” (pp. 576-78). In St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, and Ghost Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit, New York, Toronto, London: St. James Press, 1998.

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Whitley Strieber (1945-  )

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PHARR, Mary. “Adam’s Dream: The Gothic Imagination of Whitley Strieber” (pp. 97-109). In A Dark Night’s Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction, eds. Tony Magistrale and Michael A Morrison. Columbia, SC: South Carolina University Press, 1996.

Thomas Tryon (1926-1991)

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Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)

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Sarah Sayward Barrell Wood (1759-1855)

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Richard Wright (1909-1960)

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BRYANT, Cedric Gael. “'The Soul Has Bandaged Moments': Reading the African American Gothic in Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home,' Morrison's Beloved, and Gomez's Gilda.” African American Review 39 (2005): 541-53.

FORD, Elisabeth Venetta. “Black Metropolis: African American Urban Narrative in the Twentieth Century.” Dissertation Abstracts International 63:4 (2002): 1337 (Harvard University ).