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245 04 $aThe Oxford book of twentieth-century ghost stories /$cedited by Michael Cox.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1996.
300 $axix, 425 pages ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 411-421).
505 0 $aIn the dark / E. Nesbit -- Rooum / Oliver Onions -- The shadowy third / Ellen Glasgow -- The diary of Mr. Poynter / M.R. James -- Mrs. Porter and Miss Allen / Hugh Walpole -- The nature of the evidence / May Sinclair -- Night-fears / L.P. Hartley -- Bewitched / Edith Wharton -- A short trip home / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Blind man's buff / H. Russell Wakefield -- The blackmailers / Algernon Blackwood -- Yesterday street / Thomas Burke -- Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber Jun. -- The cheery soul / Elizabeth Bowen -- All but empty / Graham Greene -- Three miles up / Elizabeth Jane Howard -- Close behind him / John Wyndham -- The quincunx / walter de la Mare -- The tower / Marghanita Laski -- Poor girl / Elizabeth Taylor -- I kiss your shadow / Robert Bloch -- A woman seldom found / William Sansom -- The Portobello Road / Muriel Spark -- Ringing the changes / Robert Aickman -- On terms / Christine Brooke-Rose -- The only story / William Brooke-Rose -- The loves of Lady Purple / Angela Carter -- Revenant as typewriter / Penelope Lively -- The little dirty girl / Joanna Russ -- Watching me, watching you / Fay Weldon -- The July ghost / A.S. Byatt -- The highboy / Alison Lurie / The meeting house / Jane Gardam.
520 $aGhosts are resilient creatures. They thrive in an atmosphere of candlelight and decay, in antique manors, graveyards and cloisters and yet, as this anthology triumphantly demonstrates, they are equally at home under the harsh light of the electric bulb. The advent of the motor car and the invention of the telephone have merely tested their ingenuity, and exercised the talents of a host of writers. The fractures and schisms of the twentieth-century are reflected in the.
520 $aCurrent proliferation of literary genres, and in the marvellous variety that a single genre can embrace. Leading exponents of ghost fiction such as M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood are joined by authors such as Scott Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt, William Trevor, and Alison Lurie; women, in particular, have embraced the form with skill and versatility. As well as the returning dead there are haunted typewriters, malevolent furniture, and urban ghosts, phantoms of smoke an.
520 $aSoot. Occasionally with humour, but more often with obliquity and restraint, these stories both entrance and terrify. This collection shows how ghost stories have successfully utilized the landscapes, technologies, and consciousness of contemporary life to adapt to the modern age with imagination and flair. Distinctive and gripping, these stories will linger long in the memory.
650 0 $aGhost stories, English.
650 0 $aGhost stories, American.
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700 1 $aCox, Michael,$d1948-2009.
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