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Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Map
Author’s Note
Prologue
Part One - DEMON BRIDEGROOM
Ash Wednesday Eve, 1905
Postscript: “Ash Wednesday Eve, 1905”
Narcissus
The Spectral Daughter
Angel Trumpet; Or, “Mr. Mayte of Virginia”
Author’s Note: Princeton Snobbery
The Unspeakable I
The Burning Girl
Author’s Note: The Historian’s Confession
The Spectral Wife
The Demon Bridegroom
Part Two - THE CURSE INCARNATE
The Duel
Postscript: The Historian’s Dilemma
The Unspeakable II
The Cruel Husband
The Search Cont’d
October 1905
“God’s Creation as Viewed from the Evolutionary Hypothesis”
The Phantom Lovers
The Turquoise-Marbled Book
The Bog Kingdom
Postscript: Archaeopteryx
The Curse Incarnate
Part Three - “THE BRAIN, WITHIN ITS GROOVE . . .”
“Voices”
Bluestocking Temptress
The Glass Owl
“Ratiocination Our Salvation”
The Ochre-Runnered Sleigh
“Snake Frenzy”
Postscript: Nature’s Burden
“Defeat at Charleston”
“My Precious Darling . . .”
“A Narrow Fellow in the Grass . . .”
Dr. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler’s Novelty Machine
Quatre Face
“Angel Trumpet” Elucidated
“Armageddon”
Part Four - THE CURSE EXORCISED
Cold Spring
21 May 1906
Lieutenant Bayard by Night
Postscript: On the Matter of the “Unspeakable” at Princeton
“Here Dwells Happiness”
The Nordic Soul
Terra Incognita I
Terra Incognita II
The Wheatsheaf Enigma I
The Wheatsheaf Enigma II
“Sole Living Heir of Nothingness”
The Temptation of Woodrow Wilson
Postscript: “The Second Battle of Princeton”
Dr. De Sweinitz’s Prescription
The Curse Exorcised
A Game of Draughts
The Death of Winslow Slade
“Revolution Is the Hour of Laughter”
The Crosswicks Miracle
Epilogue: The Covenant
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Books by Joyce Carol Oates
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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