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| 1838 |
| | | US author Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Fanshawe, his first novel, at his own expense | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes a characteristically gothic tale, The Fall of the House of Usher | |
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| 1840 |
| | | The first issue of the quarterly magazine The Dial is issued by the Transcendentalists meeting at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home | |
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| 1841 |
| | | August Dupin solves the case in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered to be the first example of a detective story | |
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| 1841 |
| | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and Other Poems includes 'The Village Blacksmith' and 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Pit and the Pendulum, a cliff-hanging tale of terror at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition | |
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| 1843 |
| | | William Hickling Prescott brings the Conquistadors dramatically to life in his 3-volume History of the Conquest of Mexico | |
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| 1845 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection of poems, many of which have appeared first in The Dial | |
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| 1847 |
| | | William Hickling Prescott follows his great work on Mexico with a 2-volume History of the Conquest of Peru | |
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