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14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Supernatural Fiction

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1.

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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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 chapters, respectively on J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, and Marjorie Bowen, each examine plot, character, mood, and setting in a traditional sense, sparked by personal observations and unique comparisons. Each is preceded by a biographical sketch and documented by bibliography and notes. For some, these chapters may be the fullest accounts ever published. All demonstrate the happy combination of a scholar's insights and a fan's enthusiasm.
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The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas: The Other World in the New World » Read Now
by Dana Del George. 156 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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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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Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain: A Complete English Version of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Collection of Tales of the Supernatural » Read Now
by Ueda Akinari, Leon M. Zolbrod. 280 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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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.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

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.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

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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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 both classic and popular mysteries for children. This volume will be essential and stimulating for anyone with an interest in children's literature or in mystery fiction.
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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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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 to the sublime, the Gothic, children's literature, romance and comedy, and the purposes of imaginative literature. Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired.
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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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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 concept of modernity with the awareness that the radically new has often been subject to the effects of the return of the repressed. Rabate analyzes the notion of loss in various fields: in Freudian aesthetics of color, in literary history, and in philosophy. The postmodernist fascination with a lost object allows a reconsideration of the boundaries of such terms as modernism and postmodernism. The conclusion ties together all these motifs, from Joyce to Barthes, and shows their theoretical basis in Marx's criticism of ideology and in Freud's consideration of mourning. From the analysis of "color" as an unthinkable object of discourse to an aesthetics of the unpresentable, Rabate points to the possibility of an "ethics of mourning", which would seem capable of overcoming the dead end of history whose ending condemns it to eternal repetition.
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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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"The Rules of Folklore" in the Ghost Stories of M. R. James, in Folklore » Read Now
by Jacqueline Simpson. 10 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library