Called a &#8220;remarkable story&#8221; by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as &#8220;very powerful,&#8221; <i>Wieland</i>, Charles Brockden Brown&#8217;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. <br><br>This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes <i>Wieland</i>&#8217;s fragmentary sequel, <i>Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist</i>, as well as several other important but hard-to-find Brockden Brown short stories, including &#8220;Thessalonica,&#8221; &#8220;Walstein&#8217;s School of History,&#8221; and &#8220;Death of Cicero.&#8221; This collection also reproduces the newspaper account of the murder that inspired <i>Wieland</i>.