An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Stillwater Tragedy

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. The Stillwater Tragedy. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1880.
Type
book
Genre
novel
Abstract

This New England regional novel by Aldrich has elements of the gothic it it as well. The first chapter ends with the ominous words, "In the darkness of that summer night a deed darker than the night itself had been done in Stillwater" (5).

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