Various ~7 hr read

A March 1852 number of the celebrated American magazine, mingling fairy stories, spectral illusions, poetry, and reviews for a genteel readership.

This issue of Graham's Magazine, the influential periodical once edited by Edgar Allan Poe, offers a cross-section of mid-nineteenth-century American literary culture, fantasy and the supernatural included. A charming historical artifact. Read it for an authentic window onto the fiction and taste of antebellum America.

In its time

Published in 1852, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).