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.
