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    Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction » Read Now

    by Edward Wagenknecht. 216 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    An unusual grouping of writers, this insightful study includes some, like Henry James, who are indisputably leaders of the "canon" regardless of genre, and others, like Algernon Blackwood, who wrote almost exclusively in the supernatural; all, however, were clearly masters of this genre. The seven...
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    Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories » Read Now

    by M. R. James. 360 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. James--a first-class writer of supernatural fiction--represents his best work, including "Count Magnus," "The Rose Garden," "The Uncommon Prayer-book," "Rats," "The Malice of Inanimate Objects," and "A Vignette," as well as the title story.
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    Morgan Library Ghost Stories » Read Now

    by Inge Dupont, Hope Mayo. 112 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...for some of the best stories of the supernatural ever written in English. Scholars...childish fears about ghosts and the supernatural which the twentieth century tries...by...
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    Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei » Read Now

    by Kam Louie, Louise Edwards. 223 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    "The one hundred-some stories depict the important role ghosts played in the lives of the Chinese, as well as revealing a great deal about sex, revenge, transvestism, corruption, and other topics banned by Mei's puritanical mid-Qing society". -- Reference & Research Book News.
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    Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends » Read Now

    by Michiko Iwasaka, Barre Toelken. 140 pgs.

    The authors show that everyday beliefs and customs, particularly death traditions, offer special insight into the culture of Japan.
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    The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance » Read Now

    by Edith Birkhead. 246 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...the growth of supernatural fiction in English literature...day, writers of fiction have realised the force of supernatural terror. In the...a new type of fiction in which...
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    Mystery in Children's Literature: From the Rational to the Supernatural » Read Now

    by Adrienne E. Gavin, Christopher Routledge. 228 pgs.

    Mystery in Children's Literature charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural and horror mysteries. Written by internationally recognized scholars in the field, these 13 original essays offer challenging and innovative readings of...
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    Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader (Includes discussion of supernatural fiction in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by David Sandner. 360 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Unprecedented in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, opening a dialogue wherever possible, Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship...
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    The Ghosts of Modernity » Read Now

    by Jean-Michel P. Rebate. 260 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Jean-Michel Rabate, the eminent French Joycean, combines psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts in rereading the history of modernity to give a more precise meaning to the term modernism. Rabate focuses throughout on a single theme, the ghostly nature of modernity. In writing a history of the...
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    The Supernatural in Tragedy » Read Now

    by Charles Edward Whitmore. 379 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...THE SUPERNATURAL IN TRAGEDY THE SUPERNATURAL IN TRAGEDY BY CHARLES EDWARD WHITMORE PAUL P. APPEL...list of books and articles dealing specifically with the supernatural in...
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    Unraveling Stories: Exploring the Juncture of Ghost Story and Local Tragedy, in Journal of Folklore Research » Read Now

    by Ilana Harlow. 24 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...considered in this essay, accounts of non-supernatural local tragedies--a girls injury and...linking of the ghost stories to the non-supernatural tragic events. At issue...
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