Three Gothic Novels : Wieland Or, the Transformation : Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 : Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Three dark novels--Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, and Edgar Huntly--from 1798 and 1799 by America's first professional novelist demonstrate his influence on the development of the Gothic school of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.