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M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kinder der Toten (1995) Rikard Jorgovanić, Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories. 2005. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by S. T. Joshi. The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories. 2006. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by S. T. Joshi. Curious Warnings: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James. 2012. Edited, reparagraphing the text for the modern reader, by Stephen ...
The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day Gothic books, films, art, music, and the Goth subculture. [1] Walpole was inspired to write the story after a nightmare he had at his Gothic Revival home, Strawberry Hill House, in Twickenham, southwest London. Claiming he saw a ghost in the nightmare—which featured a "gigantic hand in armour ...
Placing a story in a Gothic building serves several purposes. It inspires feelings of awe, implies that the story is set in the past, gives an impression of isolation or dissociation from the rest of the world, and conveys religious associations. Setting the novel in a Gothic castle was meant to imply a story set in the past and shrouded in ...
The story bears a striking resemblance to what would eventually become The Turn of the Screw, with depraved servants corrupting young children before and after their deaths. [18] Towards the end of 1897, James was contracted to write a twelve-part ghost story for Collier's Weekly, an illustrated magazine. Having just signed a twenty-one year ...
The ghost of the father reveals that the fiancé is in fact her brother, and the girl dies of grief soon thereafter. As a result, Volkert ceases to experiment with the occult. At the behest of several soldiers, however, Volkert returns to magic by summoning another foreign Baron who is feuding with an officer in his cohort.
5/5 Mark Gatiss is continuing the seasonal ghost story tradition with an Arthur Conan Doyle adaptation, starring Kit Harington and Freddie Fox
The Poor Clare is a short story by English Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell.First serialised in three installments in 1856 Charles Dickens' popular magazine Household Words, [1] The Poor Clare is a gothic ghost story [2] about a young woman unwittingly cursed by her own grandmother.