Clara Wieland writes to a friend about the catastrophe that overtook her family on their estate outside Philadelphia. Her father, a religious zealot, died a strange fiery death in his temple; years later she, her brother Theodore and their circle begin hearing voices no one can explain, soon after the arrival of the mysterious wanderer Carwin.
Published in 1798, it is one of the first American novels and a founding work of American Gothic. Download the free EPUB.