(018235) Christophersen, Bill. The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic. Athens: Univ. Of Georgia Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 208 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) , was the first major American novelist.He also was the first American to earn a living as an author. Brown wrote Gothic novels, a type of horror story that emphasizes mystery, terror, and the supernatural. Wieland (1798) tells of a man who goes insane and murders his family. In Ormond (1799) , the heroine stabs to death a wealthy scoundrel who tries to rape her. English Gothic writers influenced Brown's style, but he placed his stories in American settings. For example,Edgar Huntly (1799) occurs in a forest inhabited by hostile Indians. ISBN: 0820315303 (Horror Tales, Gothic Revival)