Part 1. Suspense and Terror -- Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1819) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835) -- Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1853) -- N.B. Young, Jr., Swamp Judgment (1926) -- Part 2. Women and Panthers -- James Fenimore Cooper, A Panther Tale (1823) -- Harriet Prescott Spofford, Circumstance (1860) -- Ambrose Bierce, The Eyes of the Panther (1897) -- Lauren Groff, The Midnight Zone (2016) -- Part 3. Fire and Ice -- Jack London, To Build a Fire (1908) -- Charles G.D. Roberts, The Vagrants of the Barren (1908) -- Howard O'Hagan, Trees Are Lonely Company (1958) -- Wallace Stegner, The Wolfer (1959) -- Part 4. Accident and Injury -- David Quammen, Walking Out (1988) -- Pam Houston, Selway (1992) -- Gretel Ehrlich, Pond Time (1998) -- Annie Proulx, Testimony of the Donkey (2008) -- Part 5. Catch and Release -- Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River (1925) -- Robert Traver, The Intruder (1960) -- Melinda Moustakis, They Find the Drowned (2011) -- Wayne Karlin, Memorial Days (2020) -- Part 6. Hunter and Hunted -- Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron (1886) -- Sigurd Olson, Trail's End (1933) -- William Faulkner, The Old People (1940) -- Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife (2001) -- Part 7. Myth and Magic -- L. Frank Baum, The King of the Polar Bears (1901) -- Ohayohok, A Human Kayak (1940) -- Jenny Leading Cloud, Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (1967) -- Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) -- Part 8. Past and Present -- Marjorie Pickthall, The Third Generation (1918) -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944) -- Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape (1989) -- Ron Carlson, Happiness (2014) -- Part 9. Endangerment and Extinction -- Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) -- T.C. Boyle, After the Plague (1999) -- Ted Chiang, The Great Silence (2015) -- Lydia Millet, Woodland (2019) -- Part 10. Climates and Futures -- Juan Rulfo, Luvina (1953) -- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Tamarisk Hunter (2006) -- adrienne maree brown, the river (2015) -- Tommy Orange, New Jesus (2019).