 "Wieland" is often categorized under several subgenres other than gothic fiction, including horror, psychological fiction and epistolary fiction, which are listed at Project Gutenberg.Set sometime between the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War (1754-83), "Wieland" details the horrible events that befall Clara Wieland and her brother Theodore's family.Clara and Theodore's father was a German immigrant who founded his own religion; he came to America just before the American Revolution with the conviction to spread his religion to the indigenous people.