(dedicated to Kim Schilling, a poet friend) <br /> <br />wild <br />tense <br />exotic <br />anguish <br /> <br />castle <br />almost ruin <br />ghosts <br />mysterious <br /> <br />secrets <br />gruesome <br />characters <br />specific setting <br /> <br />a girl <br />clever <br />escape <br />faith's power <br /> <br />soul <br />fear <br />deepest <br />unconscious <br /> <br />first <br />American <br />professional <br />author <br /> <br />four <br />horror <br />novels <br />in two years <br /> <br />Ormond <br />Wieland <br />Arthur Mervyn <br />Edgar Huntley <br /> <br />a pioneer to <br />Edgar Allan Poe <br />Herman Melville <br />Nathaniel Hawthorne <br /> <br />(inspired by Charles Brockden Brown's novels)<br /><br />Ahmad Shiddiqi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/american-gothic-3/
