Writing to his late friend’s sister, Edgar Huntly recounts his hunt for the murderer of Waldegrave, killed beneath an elm. Suspicion falls on a sleepwalking Irish servant, Clithero, and Edgar follows him into caves and forests on the frontier, where his own mind proves less reliable than he believed.
A founding work of American gothic from 1799; its portrayal of the Delaware Indians is hostile in the manner of its time. Download the free EPUB.