Charles Brockden Brown : Three Gothic Novels : Wieland / Arthur Mervyn /… (edition 1998)

I like to read old horror so I had to read America's first horror bestsellers once. I found them to be literary curiosities. Brown believed that a big-city dandy could patronize a backwoods tavern keeper without consequences and that a husband who lost his wife to a fool's misjudgment would content himself with wagging his finger at him. ( )