Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Somnambulist

"In the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, we find striking terrifying scenes. In the depiction of a diseased mind, his works surpass even those of Ann Radcliffe," Lovecraft believed. Charles Brockden Brown is the great "father of the American novel" and a painter of "genuine American life" with all its repulsive and shocking facets, the author of the famous "Wieland" and a favorite of dozens of literary masters in the USA and the UK, including Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Oscar Wilde. "Edgar Huntly..." is considered the most mysterious, bloody, and psychologically profound of his works: the theme of the horrifying duality of human nature is presented by the writer through the metaphor of somnambulism...