Name: Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
ISBN: 9780140390797

Charles Brockden Brown

These two novels tell the story of the arrival and affect of the mysterious Carwin on a small Pennsylvanian community prior to the American Revolution

Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

"A light proceeding from the edifice made every part of the scene visible. A gleam diffused itself over the intermediate space, and instantly a loud report, like the explosion of a mine, followed. She uttered an involuntary shriek, but the new sounds that greeted her ear, quickly conquered her surprise. They were piercing shrieks, and uttered without intermission. The gleams which had diffused themselves far and wide were in a moment withdrawn, but the interior of the edifice was filled with rays." -- From "Weiland," by Charles Brockden Brown -- a seminal work both of American literature and the literature of the weird.