The ghost – Alida's imperceptible ghost - after figuring largely in the banter of their first month or two at Lyng ... one's greater or less susceptibility to spectral influences had no particular bearing on the case 78 The Ghost - Feeler.
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: UCSC:32106012860448
Category: Ghost stories, American
Page: 200
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Overview: Far removed from the comfort and urbane elegance associated with Edith Wharton's famous novels, the stories in this collection deal with vampirism, isolation and hallucination.
you believe in ghosts?” is the pointless question often addressed by those who are incapable of feeling ghostly influences to—I will not say the ghost-seer, always a rare bird, but—the ghost-feeler, the person sensible of invisible ...
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781439188521
Category: Fiction
Page: 304
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One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a ghost story." Once her fear was overcome, however, she took to writing tales of the supernatural for publication in the magazines of the day. These eleven finely wrought pieces showcase her mastery of the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other supernatural phenomena. Called "flawlessly eerie" by Ms. magazine, this collection includes "Pomegranate Seed," "The Eyes," "All Souls'," "The Looking Glass," and "The Triumph of Night."
... with a mysterious stranger, that won the Whitbread Novel Award. “A Spot of Gothic” is, in essence, a tribute to all those who have written gothic fiction, and describes the eerie encounter of a “ghost feeler”, Mrs Bainbridge,
Author: Peter Haining
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9781849015752
Category: Fiction
Page: 608
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Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood. This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguished writers have tried their hand at this popular genre - some basing their fictional tales on real supernatural experiences of their own.
... xiii Ghost Story (tv series), 161 The Ghost Story, 1840–1920, 35, 72 The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, 90,91 Ghost Whisperer (tv series), 162 The Ghost-Feeler, 50 Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories, ...
Author: Sherri L. Brown
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781442277489
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 252
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The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.
Later in life Edith characterized herself as a “ghost-feeler.” Whereas some people with psychic sensitivities can actually see spectral figures, Edith could enter a room and sense the presence of dead people as definitively as our nerve ...
Author: Holly Nadler
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 9781608930746
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Page: 176
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Ranging from the 18th century to the present and from Beacon Hill to windswept Cape Ann, Holly Nadler's collection of true ghost stories from Boston and its environs offers a varied sampling of supernatural phenomena. Many of these tales offer a satisfying dose of ghoulish and frightening details; others are colored with a certain poignancy or even humor.
This resistance to the lure of esoteric occultism by someone ready to believe in ghosts is less paradoxical when we ... the ghost - seer , always a rare bird , but — the ghost - feeler , the person sensible of the invisible currents of ...
Author: Robin Peel
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838640796
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 364
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"The study emphasizes the crucial role that Wharton's contact with Europe had on her writing, and the significance intellectually and politically of her relationship with Morton Fullerton and her reading of his books on politics. It locates Wharton in her period, surrounded as she was by discourses which called for political and social change, change which an outlook that Peel calls "American Toryism" made her reluctant to embrace. Her love of motorcars and her excitement about other technological developments such as aeroplanes was inspired by a feeling of exclusivity and not the democratization of culture, which she feared and condemned. France, England, Italy, and America formed the quartet of countries that contained the best and worst of culture, and Peel emphasizes how ironical it was that a writer whose ideological beliefs endorsed the importance of home, roots, and tradition should have spent so much of her life as a restless, apparently rootless traveler."--BOOK JACKET.
... quietly build up into meanings which , if ever , can only be understood " afterward . " It is at this point that the pleasure Wharton took in writing ghost stories , and the skill she had in serving the eager " ghost - feeler ...
Author: Carol J. Singley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199727333
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 316
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Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern sensibilities makes her work especially interesting. Wharton also writes of American subjects at a time of great social and economic change-Darwinism, urbanization, capitalism, feminism, world war, and eugenics. She not only chronicles these changes in memorable detail, she sets them in perspective through her prodigious knowledge of history, philosophy, and religion. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton provides scholarly and general readers with historical contexts that illuminate Wharton's life and writing in new, exciting ways. Essays in the volume expand our sense of Wharton as a novelist of manners and demonstrate her engagement with issues of her day.
Edward Wagenknecht , Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction ( New York : Greenwood Press , 1991 ) , 27 . 7. M. R. James , Ghosts and Marvels ( Oxford UP , 1928 ) , vi . 8. Peter Haining , ed . , The Ghost - Feeler : Stories of Terror and ...
Author: Joan Kessler
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567921809
Category: Fiction
Page: 320
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This fine collection of fifteen stories straddles the thin border between ordinary anxiety and existential nightmare. These tales of dread and darkness ignore the traditional demons haunting country houses or popping up from unopened graves, but instead feature characters inhabiting the familiar scenes of quotidian life. That these are tales of ordinary people makes them all the more disquieting, their horrors more sharply edged, precisely because they are set in modern, everyday reality. What the protagonists have in common, regardless of age, status, or profession, is that at some point in their lives, by imperceptible degrees or with alarming rapidity, reality turns strange, the unthinkable becomes conceivable, and the specters of uncertainty, fear, and stark, sheer terror become their constant companions.
She also wrote a number of her own supernatural stories, and these have been collected in Ghosts (1937), The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973), The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural (1996), and The Triumph of ...
Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781510723849
Category: Fiction
Page: 584
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Thirty-five uncanny and erotic tales of vampires written by supernatural fiction’s greatest mistresses of the macabre. "Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on . . . Are you, like me, ready for the new dusk?" —Ingrid Pitt, from her Introduction Prepare to arm yourself with garlic, silver bullets, and a stake. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology that every vampire fan—vampiric feminist or not—will want to drink deep from. From the classic stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan, and Angela Slatter, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented Good to the unspeakably Evil. Among those memorable Children of the Night you will encounter are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson, and Freda Warrington’s age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and now revised and updated, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women fulfils the bloodlust of the somnambulist horror fan, delivering the ultimate bite.