Edgar Allan Poe acclaimed an expanded, 1842 edition of the book as belonging 'to the highest region of Art', and added: 'Mr Hawthorne's distinctive trait is invention, creation, imagination, originality-a trait which, in the literature of fiction, is positively worth all the rest.
Hawthorne's reputation as a short story writer was cemented with the publication of Twice-Told Tales in March 1837. His strictly supervised childhood and vivid imagination created his lifelong fixation with the 'unpardonable sin', the darkness of the human mind and the uncertain shadowlands of the soul. One of the giants of nineteenth-century American literature-author of the classic novel The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne was brought up in Puritan New England. This volume presents the best of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short supernatural fiction in thirty-three stories from 'The Hollow of the Three Hills' (1830) to 'The Ghost of Doctor Harris' (1856).
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