A History of the Modern British Ghost Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Modern British Ghost Story write by S. Hay. This book was released on 2011-10-27. A History of the Modern British Ghost Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.
Eight Ghosts
Eight Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eight Ghosts write by Sarah Perry. This book was released on 2017-09-28. Eight Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. 'An impressive line-up of established and emerging names.' The Sunday Times 'These eerie, unsettling stories are guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.' Daily Express Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. 'Subtly evocative of human relations loss, grief, or the fear of loneliness.' TLS 'A satisfying and spooky read.' Sun Also includes a gazetteer of English Heritage properties which are said to be haunted.
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women write by Marie O'Regan. This book was released on 2012-10-18. The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism write by Luke Thurston. This book was released on 2012. Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic of gothic style but as a portal of discovery, an opening onto the central modernist problem of how to write 'life itself.' Ghost stories are split between an ironic, often parodic reference to Gothic style and an evocation of 'life itself, ' an implicit repudiation of all literary style. Reading the ghost story as both a guest and a host story, this book traces the ghost as a disruptive figure in the 'hospitable' space of narrative from Maturin, Poe and Dickens to the fin de siècle, and then on into the twentieth century.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost Stories of an Antiquary write by M. R. James. This book was released on 2017-12-03. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.
