Subject heading
American literature
115 books carry this heading. It is a source-library term, kept as recorded; related traditions and headings below are drawn from co-occurrence, not editorial judgment.
Related traditions
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends54
- Ancient religions, animism, and ritual17
- Occultism and esotericism8
- Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling8
- Legendary beings and transformations8
- Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis8
- Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition7
- Prophecy, oracles, and revelation7
Related subjects
- Fiction95
- Children's fiction31
- Juvenile fiction30
- Horror tales29
- horror29
- American Horror tales28
- Short Stories26
- Classic Literature24
- Horror fiction24
- Horror stories24
- murder20
- American fiction19
- Gothic fiction19
- History19
- Crime17
- Fiction, general17
- Fiction, horror17
- Homicide17
- first-person narrative17
- Crime, fiction16
Books
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1, 2, 3 to the zoo
Eric Carle, Chronicle Books Staff, Esther Rubio kokinos
1968
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor
2001
Memory Maze
Gordon Korman
2014
Skyward
Brandon Sanderson
2018
The Prophet of Yonwood (Book of Ember #3)
Jeanne DuPrau
2006
Roar
Robert N. Munsch
1657French
The gold bug, The purloined letter, and other tales (Eleonora / Gold-Bug / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1898
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Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America
David Nicholls
2000
Cultural haunting
Kathleen Brogan
1998
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Ghostly Communion: Cross-Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
John Kucich
2004
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Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture
LaMonda Horton-Stallings
2007
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The Folklore Muse: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists
F. A De Caro
2008
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The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
Zora Neale Hurston
1925
Kate Clarendon, or, Necromancy in the wilderness
Emerson Bennett
1848
The 'occult' experience and the new criticism
Clive Bloom
1986
The esoteric origins of the American renaissance
Arthur Versluis
2001
Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)
Edgar Allan Poe
1895
Works (Pit and the Pendulum / Raven)
Edgar Allan Poe
1899
The Assignation and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1880