Called a remarkable story by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as very powerful, Wieland, Charles Brockden Browns 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. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Wielands fragmentary sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, as well as several other important but hard-to-find Brockden Brown short stories, including Thessalonica, Walsteins School of History, and Death of Cicero. This collection also reproduces the newspaper account of the murder that inspired Wieland.