Edgar Huntley, or memoirs of somnambula. Brown Ch.B.

“In the novels of C. B. Brown, we find spectacular terrible scenes. In the description of the patient of consciousness, his works surpass even the books of Anna Radcliffe, ”Lovecraft believed. Charles Brockena Brown, the great “father of the American novel” and the painter of “genuine American life” with all her repulsive and shocking sides, the author of the famous “Viland” and the favorite of dozens of literature masters in the United States and Britain, including Mary Shelley, Edgar Poe and Oscar Wilde.

“Edgar Huntley...” is considered the most mysterious, bloody and psychologically deep of his works: the theme of the frightening duality of human nature was served by the writer through the metaphor of lunatism...