In ‘The Monster’ Henry Johnson, the Black coachman of Dr. Trescott, saves the doctor’s son from a burning house and is left terribly disfigured; the doctor’s decision to care for him turns the town of Whilomville against them both. ‘The Blue Hotel’ follows a frightened Swede at a Nebraska hotel to a fatal card game, and ‘His New Mittens’ is a story of a small boy.
Two of Crane’s most powerful works, unflinching studies of fear, prejudice and community. Download the free EPUB.