| Description |
vi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Washington Irving and the American ghost story / G.R. Thompson -- Phantasms of death in Poe's fiction / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Philanthropy and the occult in the fiction of Hawthorne, Brownson, and Melville / Carolyn L. Karcher -- "I must have died at ten minutes past one": posthumous reverie in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "The amber gods" / Barton Levi St. Armand -- Ghostly rentals, ghostly purchases: haunted imaginations in James, Twain, and Bellamy / Jay Martin -- James's last early supernatural tales: Hawthorne demagnetized, Poe depoetized / Howard Kerr -- Psychology and the psychic in W.D. Howell's "A sleep and a forgetting" / John W. Crowley and Charles L. Crow -- "When other amusements fail": Mark Twain and the occult / Alan Gribben -- Jack London: up from spiritualism / Charles N. Watson, Jr. -- Color of "the damned thing": the occult as the supersensational / Cruce Stark. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Supernatural in literature.
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Supernatural in literature. |
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Occultism in literature.
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Occultism in literature. |
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Ghost stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Ghost stories, American. |
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Fictie. |
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Het Bovennatuurlijke. |
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Amerikaans. |
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Roman américain -- Histoire et critique. |
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Surnaturel dans la littérature. |
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Occultisme dans la littérature. |
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Histoires de fantômes américaines -- Histoire et critique. |
| Added Author |
Kerr, Howard.
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Crowley, John William, 1945-
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Crow, Charles L.
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| ISBN |
0820306304 |
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9780820306308 |
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