Wieland

Called a ?remarkable story? by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as ?very powerful,? Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown?s disturbing 1798 tale of terror, is a masterpiece involving spontaneous combustion, disembodied voices, religious mania, and a gruesome murder based on a real-life incident.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Wieland?s fragmentary sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, as well as several other important but hard-to-find Brockden Brown short stories, including ?Thessalonica,? ?Walstein?s School of History,? and ?Death of Cicero.? This collection also reproduces the newspaper account of the murder that inspired Wieland.