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PREFACE

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April,

1917.

S.

CONTENTS

FAGB

Introduction

CHAPTBR

I.

The

Gothic

Romance

"

II.

Later

Influences

54

"

III.

Modern

Ghosts

8i

"

IV.

The

Devil

"

Supernatural

V.

His

and

Allies

Life

174

"

The

VI.

Supernatural

in

"

VII.

Supernatural
"

VIII.

Conclusion
"

Science

130

Folk-Tales

242

251

281

The

Supernatural

Modern

in

I2.n^lisK

Fiction

INTRODUCTION

supernatttral

THE

It

colors

and

that
elements
how

is

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old
of

or

new,

any

who

not

has

from

exception

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and

Shakespeare,

the

are

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seem

the

Hearn

.English

literature

time

the

of

to

in
I

how

recently
:

says

literature,
his

treatment

believe

there

is
to

poets
And

day.

own

the

books,

the

Anglo-Saxon
our

all

residue,

European

himself

it

to

our

in

in

dramas,

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of Literature,

author

literature.

wonted

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from

Shakespeare

from

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distinguished
In

epics

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in

magic.

Interpretations

scarcely

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feelings!

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wonder

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volume.

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prose

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shapes

unearthly

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our

sense

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of

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an

poetry,

our

fashions
lose

we

is

this

introduces

us

fact,
but

books,
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is

fact

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the

word

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consideration

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within

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in

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ature,
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earlier

sense

signifying

spiritual.

Introduction

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The

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spirit feeds

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the

forces

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interest.

likewise

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companionship,

join the

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soul

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suggestion

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can

universe

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petty tragedies

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stars.

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of powers

center

escape

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beings.

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conflicts^
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terror

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they dignify him

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of

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loves

faery wonder-lands

feeling of infinity otherwise

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as

highest

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of fear

grave.

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hint

shapes

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with

pure

imagination

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beyond

from

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unmortal.

no

those

realizes

and

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fact

by

not

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supernatural.

quickens the

presences
can

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mystery

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shows

in literature

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and

English fiction, as

modern

drama,

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serious

answer

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unearthly beings

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awed,

or

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fiction. The

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actual

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aeroplane

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regions of the
argue

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more

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marmore

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is

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holier-than-thou

mortals, they

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ghosts and

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that

with

by their humanity,

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as

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ghostly things

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society columns

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neighbors.

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associated

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open,

concerning

spectral confidences
to

eyes

to

reticence

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more

because
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natural
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in

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inevitably

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it

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used

to

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in

change
manifests

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the

appeared

other

poetry,

novel.

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tired

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natural

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mysterious

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noonday

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eighteenth-century

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form

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period.

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restraint

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fiction

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monotony,

to

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and

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bring

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of

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liberty.

medievalism

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result

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rationalism

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excess

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the

begin

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literature

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not

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proper

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extent

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as

medievalism.

poetry

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magicians,

fairy-lore,of magic,

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the

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and

characters

times.

trace

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mytho-

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romance,

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than

Medieval

in various

in

dramas,

ghosts, witches,

see

Celtic Otherworld,

of the

action.

considerably

forth, drew

older

conflict

and

devils,angels, and

the

such

themes,

demigods,

the

general

of super-

brings

and

powers,

in

in

elements

various

figure

moving

tinct
dis-

of super-

Poetry

certain

divine

is

later.

world, visions of heaven,

and

form

as

corresponding change

characters, gods, goddesses,


like.

of

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supersede

development

in form

lower

mortal

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of the

freely used

has

visits to the

as

weird.

literature

naturalism.

lengthy fiction, contrasted

later

change

in all times

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interesting aspect

naturalism
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in

prominent

most

are

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stories

of

recent

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vampires,
were-

wolf

so

and

far

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lycanthrope

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(save

Duchess

of Malfi)

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in

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the

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prominent

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in

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it

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castles

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study

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author's

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step to the

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extraordinary

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Gothic

architecture
that

cloisters

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medieval

terrors.

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was

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the

ancient,

shades

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structures.

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reproduce

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is

conformity becomes

enthusiasm

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ship
relation-

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novel, had

fiction, of morbid

thinking about

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monotonous.

times, for

outcome

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tale the

strongly stressed.

romance

and

the

stories

literature.

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conventionally

father

with

court.

to fit the

time

greatly

associated

itself in delicious

supernatural

and

scenery,

novel

of Gothicism.

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be

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romance,

satire, though

no

of

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more

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practically

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to
to

in

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are

largely lacking in the Gothic


furnish

pernattiralis
su-

aspects of later fiction, are

Vathek's

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as

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romance.

symbolism

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mi^thological

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to

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to

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noted

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origins here,

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times.

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power

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on.

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elixir

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uncanny

have

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later

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and

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comes

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elements

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philosopher's
objects

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drama

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the

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and

castle

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chapel,

form

other

in

scenes

medieval

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harassed

spacious in the

unearthly

the

ghosts
horrific

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kinship with

their

invariably lay

astery,
mon-

inquisitional prison.

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wandering

structure.

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phenomena

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indeed, the

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vast

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fiction.

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in

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romances

treacherous

halls

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palls of black

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dust-covered

furniture

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heart, and

my

upon

and

terror

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says:' "When

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rooms,

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castle,

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age,

castles

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winds.

ghostly

mysterious

heroine

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to

leading
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convent,

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domicile

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castle, a convent,

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class

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Romance

itself

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me

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superstitious horrors

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romances

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fiction.

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inspiration of

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21

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imagination."

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purposes

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are

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to

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few

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Through

23

holding

heart."

livid

punishment.

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his

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dejection, each

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and

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to

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24

ghosts that

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of

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after

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of

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resents
to

of murder.

man

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the

victim's

life.

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up

funeral

midnight

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strong

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innocent

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man
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waves

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accuse

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confession.

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men,

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sounds

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harp.

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disappears.
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form

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in real life have

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ghosts
"

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rings.

novels

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castle

apartment

or

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home

at

is

Every

Several

evince

25

cleverly planned,

stays

demesne,

own

dungeon

other

explanation does

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its

Romance

impression they make.

uncanny

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spectral frauds
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than

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dividual
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power

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and

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effects.

us.

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phantoms

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designate

to

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there

plot

and

than

for

have

to

seem

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impossible

by T. J. Horsley-Curties.

the

The

26

Gothic

Gothic

ghosts have

where

be

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early

and

the

excitement

in

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the

witch

real

and

genuine

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She

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be

to

stands

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in The

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in the

subterranean

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of

witch

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rare

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captured

of Eildon,
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turns

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into

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lover."

or

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not

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mischief

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with

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of

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skill,who

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witch

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tradition, for

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all,

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warlocks

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fiction.

dramatic

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antique

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flames.

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her

daughter

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of Bodbeck,

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trial

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witch
or

and

water.

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thinks
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be

innocent

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to

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figures in

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in

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of

epic tradition.

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than
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to

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as

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man

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recognized
whole

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to

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fiery

yell that
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flames.

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demon.
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to

of Dante

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epic proportions

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Marlowe's

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as

who

of the

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dread, awe-inspiring figure either

in

is

Here,

He

and

satanic

of Eildon,

incarnate

influence

ghost,

27

Hunt

novel.

terror

see

Romance

locks

at

his

inquisitors.
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about

dubious

nothing

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personality here,

certainly!
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first visits

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led

in

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form
into

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of

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as

well.

attractive

by

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His

youth.
daemonic

Gothic

The

28

Matilda,

agent,
when

she

comes

soul

selling his
refuses

awaiting

to

see

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himself, described

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thunders;
his

form;
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hands

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and

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of

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to

Ambrosio

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devil

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bind

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powers.

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shrieks.

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in the

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conferences

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occurs

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monk.
storm

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Ambrosio's

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talons

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in the

sounds.
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personality
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hand

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themselves

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swiftness

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men

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that

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tempter.

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psychologic subtlety, and

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religious superstition, of the

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nature,

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of

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for

story

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grasped

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longer

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was

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thoughts

gigantism.

enemy

spoke,

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abyss!

her

29

thee.

to

with

of

I am,

as

Yes, it

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that

Romance

himself

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sworn

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devil

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beings, but

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agents,
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beasts

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as

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locks
war-

fiction

other

associated

with

Supernaturalism

well.

to

human

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ghostly impressions,

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witches,

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peculiarly sensitive
and

that

objects.

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powers

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of

specter

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is

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30

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head

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brings

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cows

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of animal

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after

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animal.

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or

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go

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of Eildon.

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killed for
the

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pork,

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young

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weight

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31

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in horrific fiction.

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32

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read
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hieroglyphics

the

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with

enchanted

are

in distant

other

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wronged

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magic

watch

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till."

to

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wishe"

men

on

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of

by

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in

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and

groan."

great

ghost

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great

grounds obtained

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person

be, and

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with

abbey

contains

romance

see

from

moves

all roimd

"march

to

upon

in

stories.

support, and^

again

house

turns

it,

dead.

Gothic
can

old

the

kept,

of

by

and

blighted, unproMc,

later

other

means

curse

burns

Oscar

Walpole's Castle

soil of the

inflicts

who

nun

and

the

as

Wilde's

with

injustice is haunted

gross

and

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with

its place

the

for

power,

mocks

is said

marble

head

flames, ironically,and

in

visible

into

Oswyth

St.

and

wall,

portrait of

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its frame

compared

Alfonso

no

eflfigyof black

In

Grey

of Dorian

the

the

its

meaning,

it from

tears

writhes

awful

with

beholder

the

follow

eyes

on

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-with

been

wags

bed.

the

making

endowed

is

Melmoth

is

who

servant

chamber

has

it

itself back

deserted

where

heap

hangs

itself and

cleans

thrown,

lumber

the

from

up

Romance

The

reveal

not

the

future

Hunt

oj

only what

swords

well,

as

that

bear

only by enchantment
will

to

illustrate

by inanimate

objects

serve

"

In

The

As

in Vathek.

Monk.

The
in

the

is

used

Gothic

literature.

terror

with

could

in

tales, and

besides

the

for

we

magic

potion

There

have

is

the

where

of

order

of

the

to

that
The

gives
Monk,

as

diabolical

of

chemistry

j-gpntriloquism,

into

peer

modern
writes

earlier,of

of

his

see

medicine.

is

her

him

of

secrets

He

laboratory,

into

in

and

Vathek
various

astrology, alchemy,

uses

Romeo

drink

magic

death, like that

course,

an

of prominent

powerful potion.
leads

on

messages

assembly
in

however

mother

and

Vathek,

serpent's oil,mummies,

sciences.

semblance

disease

patent

cadavers

the

In

ghostliness, we

Vathek'

with

up

kindred

the

science

characterization

any

who

their

use

in

idea.

supernatural

cures

curiosity that

to

and

sorcery,

of

strangling an

them

stews

experiments,

of the

uses

have

themselves.

uncurbed

an

later

array

skulls, concocting therefrom


has

istic
mechan-

important

supematuralism.

magician

alchemist

she

the

crude, yet of interest

in the

as

instantly

heavens

in

become

are

We

regular

Indian

industrious
citizens

twists

progenitor

an

high

well

here

see

itself in the

as

that

the

"

motif

supernatural-

astrology, hypnotism,

scientific

where

deadly,

the

philosopher's stone, 'iiifernal


biology,

the

other

is to

his confreres.

alchemy,

search

do not

suggesting

as

novels

and

We

manifests

Gothic

that human

way

effects here

and

Dasmonology
the devil

instances

some

which

the

in themselves

in the

accomplish.

not

supematuralism,
later

In

33

effectiveness, definitely heightening the

impression of the weird


ism

Romance

used

later

in

Juliet, and

and

elsewhere.

-^

^_"

The
He

tells of
do

to

hate

in

Moor

Zofloya

chemical

his

into love

will
or

or

die.

his

love into hate, and

da;monic

loves, then

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commits

Under

temptress
suicide

in daemonic

versed

experiments

produces semi-insanity.
weds

is well

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where

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he

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give

influence

thinking

forces

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potions

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wakes

science.

can
a

drug

of this
the
to

woman

the

one
every-

change
which
a

man

he
truth.

The

34

This

reminds

diabolic
In

the

is

neglects

branded

in

birth

whose

in

invisible
The

remain

must

her

story

the

young

in

than

student

the

thrust

suddenly

from

it.

She
of

because
takes
created

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the

it but

his

that

slow

dear

by him.

of

Frankenstein

recoils

its

shuddering

on

till at

the

remorse

whom

it stands

griefas

it has

doom.

first,is effective, as, in tragic solitude,

the

it, as
on

its

the

ice-floe,it

toward

moves

the

The

harried

of

own

has

impressive.

goes

to

it

struggles that
are

of

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man

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last

death, then

away

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lonely, tragic thing

in an' agony

weeps

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intelligence,

it meets,

and

thing

distilled in its heart

hate

only

hate

size

sight of it.

ever

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body

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the

revenge,

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ment,
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supernatural

human

from

treatment

between

soul

in

compounds

study and

of less than

the

all held

and

by its dreadful

world

remain

Matilda

Uquid.

of

harsh

on

wretched

over

into

will

which

morbid

emotions

reveals

diabolic

rend

the

letters

with

gives it life. But

flees in horror

Shelley describes

nizable
recog-

supernatural biology

.of

and

size, its look

be

must

its side

frame

its creator

appalls

who

Frankenstein, the story of

human

babe

experiments.

after

who

child

new-born

chemistry

idea

grotesqueness

human

and

the

story

certain

prescription

same

chemical,

man-monster,

constructs

created

on

subterranean

scientist

hideous

mark,ed

satanic

uses

of the

yet

with

in her

Shelley

Mary

secret

strange

dabbles

evil,potions

and

is

till rubbed

Monk

the

In

point of

the

at

drug whose

peculiar fashion.

with

by

state.

to

emergency,

in

burnt

lying

woman

cured

miraculously

author

is

Castle

of

stories

Fu-Manchu

produce insanity.

that

hypodermics

Romance

Rphmer's

of Sax

us

Ankerwich

death

Gothic

last

desolate

to

sight

ing
tower-

North

to

death.

In

the

characterization

conception,

Mrs.

of this

Shelley

has

being,

as

introduced

in the

unusual

something

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poignantly
the

mind

for

youths

in

new

of

Gothic

fiction.

twenty

There

is

early

Gothic
in

illustrates
The

the

anew

search

novels

of

relates

the

the

of

story

unlimited

gold by

stranger who

dies

awe-inspiring

an

Brown's

den

had

in

been

"at

the

The

This
Master

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of the

becomes

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the

success

account

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in

ous
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suggests

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hypnotism

thought

could

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moned
sum-

brought

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trial
terres-

of Ibsen's

illustrate the

may

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Brock-

Mervyn

foreshadowing

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There

Charles

extremity

as

in

the

are

use

of

discovery
are

life.
Laugh.

the

tiresome

Gothic

still. The
be

not

of

story

Godwinistic
'

In

thought

laid

down,

in

fiction

appeared

Struldbrugs,
is

novels.

potion, the

magic

may

has

intolerable

St. Leon
The

the

poignant

more

of

divers

psychological experiences

mortality, life that

Swift's

perpetual
'

intense

burden

before.

Builder.

life is brewed

with

endless

since

of

and

connected
effects

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faint

produce

life.

Victoria's

further

seems

Godwin,

in Gothicism.

elixir

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that

"

in various

by

Arthur

Zofloya

her,

York,'

Shelley^ brings in this

while

that

stein
Franken-

to

given him

gift of endless

saying

of the

New

how

ventriloquism

to

he

of science

of

armored

William

knew

formula

the

Moor

globe."
idea

with

of

appears

by

in his home.

use

hj

the
him

who

man

somnambulism.

mesmerism

or

Leon,

novel, Wieland,

in

study

secret

incidentally

power

St.

stein's
Franken-

idea.

the

philosopher's stone

period.

in

duced
pro-

in

of the

recently

Monk

have

horrors

employment

vitality of

for the

awfulness

for

abnormal

could

accompanying

The

The

the

only

museum

play produced

and

through

the

and

novels.

motif

and

in

ghosts. Bleeding Nuns,

startling theme

Vathek

were

curdling

more

35

she went

than

monster

was

years,

psychological conditions
it.

It

girl,as

young

of

Romance

and
the

hero

perhaps
secret

of

is visited

St. Irvyne.

The

36
by

decrepit old

Gothic

man

incommunicability

of

endless

life

nobleman
he

has

what

will

give

wealth.

pledge

on

of

him

the

The

impoverished

power

than

enjoyable

less

consequences

The

theme.

has

discovered

elixir

the

Shelley's later

Mary

rather
of

character
their

the

in

identity but

The

in

immortality
the

Here
endless
becomes

with

him

world

in

offering

his

man

nor

when

will

woman

the

willing

his

offers

wealth

them

win

as

buy

to

the

well

of death

change
He

extreme

tinies
des-

traverses

to

the

sons
per-

torments,

life eternal.

at

of

existence

exchange

as

life

fleshly

power

boon

soul.

suffering the

and

of

us

Melmoth.

in

lay it down

mortal

and

found

the

price of

search

need

give

to

the

of

theme

possesses

can

another

at

direst

to

Melmoth

find

can

right

the

another

as

informing

the

is

wanderer

the

not

burden.

only if he

of

early novels

in

explain it.

to

instance

with
Events

again

Shelley

"

who

eyes,

falls dead

life

to

comes

mitted
adthe

uses

compared

be

villain

troubling

not

book,

Frankenstein.

of

the

as

Shelley

as

burning

life,may

story,

mysterious

in

the

the

life,but

with

but

impressive

most

student

picture

devil

later

Godwin's

of

here,

confused

presence

from

came

young

idea,

whose

romance,'

Stockdale,

same

no

to

anticipated.

to

the

wishes

with

accepts

tell him

who

boundless

and

Shelley's hectic

are

Romance

Yet.

price of

the

soul.
Aids

ringly
found

Gothic

to
as

Effect.

first aids

supernatural
size which

visitants

they

colossal.
St.

Irvyne

or

Gothic.

the

to

is

last

the Rosicrucian.

while

of

others

them

or

Th^^stle

he is

are

belong

interesting aspect
the

more

of the

superhuman

of Otranto, the

size,and
scene

recur-

appear

Some

gigantism,

enormous

In the

themes

fiction.

An

In

assume.

ghost is of

'

terror

equally in later literature

particularly

are

to

Certain

his

accouterments

-astounding :

sational
sen-

The

of

clap

earth

rocked

heard

behind.

thunder
and
.

of

said

an

ruins.

reminds

Mr.

of

one

Isaacs, where

as

the

Moor

incident
Indian

pursues

with

Monk

is

much

of

the

Insanity
affords

many
a

of

the

aweinthe

in combat

evil

to

the

difficulties of

special

of the

curse

to

the

studies

gruesome

gods

various

instances

The

devil in

Zofloya, at Victoria's

Spirit of

the

of its

Castle.

giaiitis

TEe

genii,

giant has

Gothic

place in

use

stage

effect

of

the

torment

or

in

occur

drama,

presentation.

supernaturalism
Madness

psychiatry.

in

seems

only occasionally in

practicallyno

contributing

and

power

along with

the

The

man
superhu-

He
Oriental.nrigiria1^

mere

he has

in

that

creature's

beholder.

but

feet

nine

or

stature,

appearsmFa^^e^,
personages,

fierce

man-monster

the

from

to

devil

enormous

by

and

The

The

sink

Victoria

engages

him.

fiction, appearing

tfom

as

'""

mense,
im-

as

to

seem

most^ases_jjgantisnijConnotes

doubtless

owing

being

of

youth

knight

slays

it round

wraps

eight

awful

to

wicked

handsome

the

arises

kindred

uof

scene

apparition

created

stories,while

In

in

Crawford's

spoken

frequently

excited

flloreTfiabDiisffl: tfiaiTEHe
fade

and

the

and

supernatural

dwart's, and

"

of

Alfonso!"

expands

last

from

as

an~Ortentanigufeand

seems

of

objects

giant who

In

rouses

later

form

appeared

"common

horror

the

size.

is

the

'

represented

Frankenstein

to

was

Manfred

the

Marion

mist

diabolic

monk,

dasmonic

and

In

in F.

magician

down

that

change

gigantic figure.
high

and

heir

true

the

armor

behind

force,

"Behold

an

it is said

presence.

the

sees

castle

magnitude,

Zofioya
"

his

of the

foundations;

mortal

immense

the

cloak.

and
in

than

more

mighty

size, miraculously draws


him

its

to

vision.

the

This

of

walls

with

to

the

castle

37

down

Alfonso, dilated

Romance

the

clank
The

thrown

center

shook
the

were

Gothic

the

from
Gothic

devil

fiction.

request, gives Henrique


'

In

The

Spirit of

Turrettville.

The

38
enchanted

an

time

Lilla whom

he

of what

he

The

In
mad
he

has

in

he

has

dashes

frenzy, he

maniac

prison walls.

dishonor

to

corridors

of the

accusing

specter.

Poor

Bodbeck

is described

as

her

the

and

songs

devilish

talks

the

their

also, shows

us

day

by

Melmoth,

may

be

in Scott's
in

scene

hopeless situation

delight in,

things, of

yellslike

hundred

the

who

mother
the

has

great
voices

alternately
Charles

lost

are

and

Brockden

insanity

for

the

but

her

Another

rivals

supernatural

sane

to

man,

offer

change
ex-

others

by

"

the

^the

all,

reason,

shrieks

impressive figure in
himself

stilled

are

lamentation,
children,

his
mad

go

echoed

cry,

appalling

thinks

blasphemes

ness
mad-

cruelly with

the

her

home,

At

he, too, will

wild

begins

husband,

Brown

him

that

of demons,

preacher who

prays

where

taunts

power

Maturin

visits

Stanton's

hushed.

mysteriously

with

compared

Melmoth

fire.

is

The

supernatural

mad-house,

mother

London

is the

mad-house

hear
those

mad

the

prophecies

and

bride

of Lammermoor.

Bride

Melmoth

We

despair.

of

of wild

of

sings wild, unearthly

whose

husband

of destinies.

use

child's

special effectiveness.

with

confined, whom

is

Stanton,

other

She

his

Brownie

Hogg's

'a beam

"

wedding

wife

of the

idea

young

accompanying

in

'

having

of his

sight

deliriously of incomprehensible

uses

on

when

in

Nanny

sold

through the

madness

the

escape

has

struggles.

insanity of the

from

to

joy of madness.

Melmoth

slain

dungeon

against the

out

who

father

ones

pit of hell,imtil,

brains

shrieking in

flies

daughter

eye,

the

Ethehmna

In

goes

different

the

the

into
his

suicide.

to

misanthrope

that

imagines

hurling him

are

him

drives

be

to

realization

the

to

wicked

the

He

remorse.

awakes

madness

Caithness

murdered

Victoria, imagining her


he

real

temporarily insane,

him

renders

When

done,

of

Romance

marries

loves.

Castle

from

which

drug

during which

Gothic

demon

all
the
and

Lord

Maturin
effect.

in his
The

terrible

demented

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murderer
and

that

mania

is

the

he

by diaboHc

Brown

human

makes

the

unusual, while

produced

impressive.
on

Romance

Edgar Huntley gives an

in

awe

Gothic

knew

mind
feel

us

of pure

Gothicism

morbid

mentality

could

has

few

subtlety, for haunting horror,


dismembered

What

itself ?

What

he

mania,
voice

feels

of God
is

"

sacrifice

the

which

"

Deity?

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intolerably powerful;
gloom-haunted
terrible

to

and

human,

Perhaps

the

is that

of the

tragic

wolf-man
in his

from

the

insanity
illustrate.

has

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horror

use
romance.

novel

of the

at

portents

are

of

children

of

who
of

as

in later

is

Calamity

be

to

insanity, the

is

more

are

of Gothic
is

real, who

terror

The

wolf

and

mad

insanity and

all

snatched

other

these

at

eyes

head

various

will

uses

of

serve

to

the

natural
super-

literature.

distinct
is

is

reason

Albigenses.

human

anguish.

The

in

the

quist
ventrilo-

mind,

man

pathies
sym-

religious

windings

period, but

between

marked

our

that

gleaming, awful

There

relation

been

himself

lair,glaring with

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of

is

lycanthrope

graveyard.

to

aspect of insanity in the

imagines

in the

human

set

in upon

with

and

labyrinths

extremity

approach^ him, gnawing

who

when

turned

trick

his wife

here

hideous

most

fiendish

or

Wieland?

appeal

so

midnight

of

psychologic

Brown's

mind

the

the

suffering the

novel

cowers

of

than

studies

vindictiveness

dark

feel that

We

dungeons.

the

ery
machin-

tragedy of dethroned

dread

crashing helmet

with

murder

passages

traverse

For

conviction

the

more

and

In

overwhelming

to

even

unwieldy

racked

is but

religious

suggestion

despair, when,

calling him

to

is

could

torture

Wieland's

as

what

unbalanced

an

exterior

the

equals.

raekings of monkish

against the agonies of

is

achieve.

ghost compared

the

are

its

cumulative

that

awe

never

of mystery

effect of mystery

by slow,

he

with

ventriloquism

creeping

impression

Wieland

the

and

39

characteristic

generally preceded by

of the
some

The

40

sign

of the
of

ment

Gothic

influence

supernatural

dread.

Romance

Crime

work,

at

catastrophe

and

present-

some

forefelt

are

by

premonition
The

of

Accusing

discovery

"Yes,

says,

nature

vain.
a

will be

This

from

three.

awful

is

behold!"

letters

all that

was

it held

which

of

sent

in

story,

dread

signs

final

from
fixed

while

that

that

my

issued

fascinated

laws

announces

from

scroll which

not

appeal, by

no

These

anonymous

foretold

"

hand.

are

and

two

sent

there

approached

in its hand
in

strike

the

the monk

common

portents

messenger

power

fate

"Catherine,

doom,

at

whose

my

lips,but

clock

an

the

In

heralds

at

of the Castle, an

the

dead

night

foretold

awful

Romance

hears

woman

she

The

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is

when

miraculous;

violated, the

horror.

winding-sheet, and

discovery

dread

are

are
"

in its

corpse

some

phenomena

thunder

Spirit supernatural

of the

of

accompaniment

and

woe

terrific

moment.

the

specter's

irrevocable

my

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bunal
tri-

appalled

my

sight.
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her

keeps

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to

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the

to

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in

promptly.
vision

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which

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James

in

foreknowledge

experience
his date

novel

of that

Eliot's

George

The

Lifted Veil.
In

Spirit of the Castle,

The

knocks

three

times

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approach

of the

been
the

black

kept by
ancient

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doors

door

ghost

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heir

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to

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exclaims, "What

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mean

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receive
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these

servants

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of

cry,

master!"

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of the
At

enters.

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arrival

English Baron,

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as

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castle

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brazen

portents?

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have

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shaken

still

the

"

At

the

employ

to

be from

omens

thou

heaven

41

point

the

the

helmet

thy

carry

hell,Manfred

or

"

But

cause.

equallycries

these

ness
righteous-

to

bad

bring

omens

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trusts

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is

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knight, thou

true

plumes

Manfred

leaps in.

art

to

sorcery

protect his

to

this

sword

great

apparition, "If

scorn

Romance

strenuously, and

more

agitated when
to

Gothic

luck

Manfred.

to

There
of the

is much

of portent

use

Wanderer

just before

appearing

predicts the spiritual doom


is almost

brings

The

cry,

is
to

here?"

you
' '

and

walking

when

music

the

sound

where

bride

the

and

the

priest falls dead

preceding

the

derer,
Wan-

the

ous
viper-

turns

in the attempt

Mysterious
in several

of

strains

Gothic

heard

are

devil

priest is unable

bread

power.

of disaster

old uncle

themselves

Melmoth,

communion

death

the

cross

the

inexplicable strains

groom

the

out, "What

' '

specter

old man's

of evU, for the

fiendish
heralds

as

The

As

servants

in his mouth

and

the

dying.

cries

the

portent

he is there

exorcise

as'

which

at

devil

of the

last, he

in his presence,

pray

to

his

breathing

in Melmoth.

novels,

only by the

strange tragedy that

befalls

visitant

terror

them.
At

the

novel
and

of

approach

the

fire

such

portentous

take

drops of blood

while

ridiculed

idea
a

Prof.

evil.

did

not

by

"

The

the

shed

the

from

critics,are

Lyon

William

originate

with

Dryden's
'

'

In

Amboyna,

IV.,

i.

itself tends

to

draws

Phelps

Walpole,

but
of

in

nose

points

as

out^

Beginnings of the English Romantic

Otranto,
portent
that

ill,as referred

instance

Movement,

the

familiar

was

may

Melmoth.

In his

The

near.

simply

meant

This

fire,

for

statue's

superstitionregarding premonition

is

ample opportunity

ghost

in the

there

thermometer

when

path

downward

where

blue,

usually affords

blaze.

three

of

burns

always

great hearth

the

supernatural

p. io8.

be

as

to in
com-

The

42

with

pared
later

the

drama,

The

much

and

The

fiction.

in

the

terror

supernatural

haunter

Gothic

The
the

and
is

the

especially to
stroke

the

appallingly by

sounded
other

birds

adding

the

screech

while

"night

prey,"

In St.

flock

Oswyth,

birds,"

the

corridor

toward

of

night that

sat

similar

portent,

Ashley

Professor
the

Restoration

are

reduced

to

night

Than

romance

three

and

drops

in his

Thomdike,

John

no

sooner

just three
of blood

the drama,

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decorum:

peculiar

' '

and

or,

the

forth.

so

midnight

through

ill-bodingbird

the

of the

prison

Self-Abandoned,
in

notes

his

shows

The

Life

and

Heywood.

dramatist

"Last

These

H.

at

the

"birds

anonymous

birds"

Whicher

Frisbee

George

Eliza

Mrs.

of

Romances

Dr.

as

and

the battlement

Lasselia:

romance,

The

gloom.

bat

steals

on

tales,

owl, the

helplessvictim,

screeching

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his

keeper,
time-

as

common

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murderer

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as

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or

the

Gothic

in the

be

medieval

these

general

the

to

to

sure

castle

or

ments
mo-

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to

flyfreelythrough

wings

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of

bell

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o'clock

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the

their

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houses

crucial

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of fear.

impression

of

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night.

at

chosis.
psy-

garish day,

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the

under

the

over

uncanny

an

love

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darkness

unimaginable

of

add

ghost does

castle, gloomy

terror

triple veil

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to

of

of grue-

use

usually hangs

silence

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good

to

effects

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by

up

suggestions.

and

used

are

cumulative

The

haunted, predisposing

the

and

ghostly

the

carefully built

night, desolation,

of

portents of ill

other

Various

and

accompaniments

/some

Ibsen's, particularly in

and

romance.

are

awe

in

omens

'

of dread

symbols

effect

skillfully handled

more

Galilean.

in Gothic

appear

Romance

Maeterlinck's

as

Emperor

Gothic

I laid

of blood

probably

which

(p. 273),

in

speaking

says:

of the

"Even

the

plays

of

portents

"

was

drops

Tragedy,

have

it would

be

to

rest

fell from
much

more

nose!"

my

extended

interestingto

trace

history in
out.

The

tower,

whose

hoarse

croaking

deter

not

the

prominent
the

of

be

birds

his

clambering

over

light and

adding

vaults

accessories, and

large

skulls

as

The

element

of mystery

family

feature

of

proper

thrill

without

explain
strive

with

astounding
Roche
courage

the
of

are

care

the

the
the

Even

to

noted

to

the

mystification

where,
else-

ornaments

of morbid

persons

exhumed

furnish

to

in certain

seen

of

antique

build

attained

suspense

that

novels

in the

ghosts

Radcliff

Mrs.

this
as

desired

by
end

and

they

they have

tear

Maria
not

the

thrilled

the
and

basis

contain

Regina
have

constructed

natural
super-

natural

down

no

carefully

but, after they have

extent,

is

shall

They

respect.

such

on

plots which

up

is another

There

suspense.

ghostly phenomena

in

that

of the

gruesome

mystification

and

novel

discoveries.

of their

reader

and

all the

away

are

out

Mexico.

in

mystery.

ivy
effect

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all their

by

be

may

churches

Italy

dark

location

the

mural

as

skeletons

pile of bones

in countless

general gloom.

used

are

instances,

of the

with

doleful

architecture, shutting

graveyards

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temperament.
as

the

the

as

of the

occur

frequently by

and

the

having. caused

Similar

made

library appointments

as

or

is also

to

of

one

Oswyth

cry

anguish.

medieval

is increased

in

for

condemning

use

is

in St.

as

special nomenclature,

in its

scenes

owl"

remorse

mental

Much

horror

in

alive, the

novels.

of

does

Accusing Spirit,emphasizing

suspense,

quaking

Gothic

the

by the

terrifies but

screech

in The

special

buried

without

or

echoed

were

raven"

melancholy

lies

increases

with

notes

ominous

personages

baron

to

nun

of the

43

villain.

moments

wicked

Romance

harsh, discordant

"moping,

The

Gothic

fabric

lously
meticu-

explain everything.
The
with

black
Mrs.

veil constitutes

Radcliffe.

On

favorite

various

method

occasions'

of suspense

Emily

pales

The

44

and

Gothic

quivers before

in the

wind, and

midnight

aside

the

curtain

dropping

decay, lying

to

Many

chapters

further

figure

made

serve

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she

fold

shrieks

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bandits

that

Black

house.

veils

and

romances
arras

when

waves

that

taken

In

The

she

drapes them

likewise

in other

reads, "Oh,

misfortune
reveal

you

them."

the

story of

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Spirit of the

off:

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close

my

strong

corpse

of my

"Beneath

discovery."
one

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in Melmoth

that

fate-harried
A

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against reading

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in

frequent

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cases.

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ruin

lies buried

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the

old uncle's

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says,

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all mortal

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of

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of the
he

tortures

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not

avoid

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wanderings

those

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of the

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starts

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side

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avenge

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records

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the

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slight attempt

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man

codicil

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speak,

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ask

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to

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scripts.

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Antoinette.

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avenge

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tion.
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in such

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and

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grammar

figures.)

mystery

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to

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on

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to

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has

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in all of Mrs.

tales

of the Forest

which

paper
or

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their

in fashion

are

only

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up

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Mrs.

repulsive face

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have

ancient

an

wax

inky curtain, watching

of the

later

discovers

for

is

this

that

pall.

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behind

learns

penance

as

unaccountably,

ghost, but
of

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corpse,

couch

on

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in front

shivers

move

her.

at

to

hideous

draws

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finds

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velvet

dark

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his

he

ized
agon-

nesses.
wit-

nephew

does

read

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written

fill

breast,
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he

to

the

curse

to

man

speak

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world

and

shun

of this

whole

Inexplicable

music
in

strains
The

heroine's

suspected
of

appearance

theme

recurrence

of the

monotony

of

Groans

and

wails

Maria

Roche's

'

Regina
A

Sicilian

on

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so

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to

you

the

bind
ties of
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develop

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rence
recur-

victrolas

chiefly instrumental,
a

The

on.

and

Maria

Regina

at

with

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supernatural

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constant

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harp

times
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performance.

masquerading
in

in

ally
occasion-

violin, though

sounds, and

specter plays

rettville the

'

of

it will

have

musings

devil

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by flute-like

is heralded

is
on

be

to

forego

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Radcliffe

Mrs.

the

accompany

music

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it is vocal.

to

romances.

must

one,

"

which

of the commonest

one

there

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times.
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these

so

in

any

tempt

claims

must,

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forms

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suggests

on

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to

would

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sorrow

cries, "Were

those

Time

society.

of mystification

medieval

be

secret

Oswyth

St.

questioned.

Castle

detest

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mystery

be

my

mystery

seem,

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man.

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presentiment

marquis

cloud

there

unwilling

was

told

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which

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to
run

as

than

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impenetrable
and

we

have

secret

blood

destiny, unknown,

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liberty

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novels

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Sir Alfred

over

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heroine?

or

tale,'

horrid

Abate

in

occur

horror!"

make

that

life

and

elucidation

the

hero

favored

speaks of "a
"

the

secrets

one

with

me

death-bed

hung

In

whose

would

we

dread

to

45

manuscripts

deciphered by

form.

mystery

Romance

mouldy

are

be

to

Gothic

it

sings.

TurThe

acquires

the

tantalizing refrain.

Romance,

of

unexplained origin also

aid in build-

Clermont.

by Mrs.

Radcliffe.

'

In

Zofloya.

The

46
.ing

In

upjsuspense.

that

so

the

Gothic

Gothic

pages

and

open

the

ghosts

horrific

well

Gothic

as

father

forth

says,

gloom,

The

of Mrs.
dominant

imitated

ous
vari-

mystery

"

of gray,

only unrelieved
heroine

Romantic
and

swooning

She

tumbles

but

her

into

worst

supernatural

desks, and

manuscripts
The
In

and

verse

vice

is that

horrors

secret

she

she

she

does

invention

Inquisition and
show

gloating in
are^no

and

restful

white

she

emergency

sketching
of

not

at

lay her hands

on,

Gothic
human

much

is

In

her

given
clad

in

surprised.

search

midnight

belong, breaks
read

ish
fiend-

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on

curiosity.

wanders

the

characters.

yet always impeccably

hiding-places to
can

temper,

Raleigh,'

monasteries

black

hero

is of Rad-

the

was

peculiar creature,

nocturnal

where

apartments

like the

weeping,

what

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hero

Walter

be

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tortures.

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saturnine

Sir

and

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breath-

to oppress

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officials of the

convents

and

as

fering
inter-

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in threats

to

not

temperaments

past and

tried

must

scenes.

helpless inmates,

their

over

and

Byron.

Byron
The

cruelty toward

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terror

are

est
of inter-

center

characters

marriage.

by

that

man

figures in

diabolism

human

frequently

in

of vague

person

the

occupy

relative,brutal

loathed

Radcliffe.

shades

the

'"^There

over.

other

or

and
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'

aid in Gothic

castles, tempests,

into

admired

no

volition, doors

assistance, and

human

devils

slaughter, comes

heroine

cliffian

and

romancBj^

lightlypassed

to

tension.

mystification.

in the

or

terious
Mys-

the

alarming

supernatural phenomena

Although

be

with

visible

no

turned.

are

increase

likewise

vanish

close with

other
and

and

appear

they

as

groan

arises

lugubriousness

of

fact, a chorus

disappearances

Lights

Romance

whatever

for

through

open

boxes,

letters

or

behaving generally

yellow journalist of fiction.


pages

The

of the

English Novel,

Gothic
p.

228.

novel

are

smeared

with

gore

The

and

with

turn

nothing
the

ghostly

land

on

tadpoles

Gothic

like

Gothic

Austen's

school

inimitable

written

her

as

till after

her

other

satires

which

might

she

the

it.

well-known

modern

vicious, merely
is not

beauty,
pencil

she

sketch

to

the

mostly

adventures
She

lover

who

all the
with

is the

young

men

the

abbey

Gothic

pered
tem-

is not

not

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to
are

has

palpitating

supphed

being

she

Radcliffe's

Mrs.

county

that

through

goes

no

snatch

nor

told

are

lover

has

heroine

sonnets

on

unrecognized
in

present, yet how

The

we

she

in

satiety of

dents.
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with

estates, since

vast

properly provided

parents.

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the

hampered

is

into

modelled

work

for her

pursuing, repulsive

for

Yet

accompHshments.

no

her

wrote

for her

all

sillybore.

scene,

tor
edi-

the

interfering father

the

roristic
ter-

tive,
story itself is imita-

setting is

topple

appear

so

she

save

are

ill-natured; the

does

nor

begun

comfort;

times,

immortality

won

The

Though

justifythe

meantime

materials

villain, only

the

Jane

is to ridicule the

of her

title of the

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differentlyemployed!
to

In

been

have

never

romances.

and

ahead

ture.
litera-

is

in 1797, it did not

in itself would

society and

on

literature

Its purpose

was

publish

to

medieval

sold

book

the

school, but
feared

and

best

contribution

valuable

English

yet

the

English

to

thors
au-

humor,
of

one

reader

The

it,Northanger Abbey.

death, in 1818.
and

earth, for
the

of

sense

known

to

satire of

first novel

Romanticists

in

most

made

the
and

whole, is

the

is like

disquisitions.

humor

Perhaps

under

whales

Godwinistic

totally lacking

Conclusion.

conversation

waters

Johnsonian

as

47

The

in the

or

of unconscious

the

Romance

flutter.

novel, taken

specimens

that

sea

under

almost

are

the

or

talk

restless

grows

Gothic

delicious

fiction

of the

between

persiflage in which.
day
two

may

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53

crudely

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II

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Influences

Later

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54

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55

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62

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68

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84

him, only those who

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as

than

require

haunting.

into

form

take

can

of

comes

"

in

not

in

woman's

then

In Wilkie

'

in later

often

as

it. It is

record.

rattle

deadly

he

come

lead

garden

suggestive story.

and

over

fleshless,

appear

heard

diabolical

people

fear

finallykills him,

do

suggestion from

bite him, the

teeth

as

the

does

powers
a

on

de ad

it in the

can

melted

by pouring

guest.

but

its

ghosts

revenge

head

us

face,

varied

more

ghost

story of

in accordance

the

the

skeletons

flightwith

to

ghost

has

are

purposes,

multiplies

with

bending

is not

modern

put the hardiest

there

corpse!

bones

apparitions

realize

of

and

was

whole, though

times.

skeleton

wife

89

times.

early

to

foul

of

up

eyes

my

of the

rattle

Ghostly

and

I looked

fear

into

peering

Ghosts

Ghost)

'In

Notch

on

the Axe.

Ghosts

Modern

90

Sudden

each

A
Each

head

in

(Himself

Stalked

The

Bulwer-Lytton's

In

hand

woman's

without

letters,then

Eyes

other

Legions
they

not

are

tread

on

' '

And

that

but

the

hollows

seen,

note

it up,

they dig

to

body, lacking

had

who

woman

killed

one

find

itself in

disfigurement

lived

section

of

There

soul, for the


in whole

this

the

or

of

body

seems
can

roots

snake

that

mortal

and
to

the

perform

by

In

the

on

in

deserted

that

mystification

the

case

whose

woman's
with

the
had

husband

beside

the

fiction

fests
frequently mani-

porch.

dismembered,

or

adding
no

their

to

porch

been

body
be

feet!

Vine

of

mutilated

has

form

her

Eyes!

Bierce's

refuge in

and

buried

Then

echo

in the

had

as

in part, unaided

In

violently.

there

form,

immortality

haunting.

the

move

"

in Ambrose

covering

ghost in modern

revenge

relentless

and

foot,

her secretly and

The

vine

strange

to

terrible

earth

take

men

in the

seen

ghost manifested

revenge

couple of

unaccountably

shakes

of the

horror.

hideous

Eye

of numberless

tramp

the

Strange Story

Those

Eyes!

individual

an

cient
an-

lofty giant.

some

supernatural phenomena

shows

and

of

legions!

peculiar form.
house

height

"Those

The

he

House

at

the

"seeming

nearer,

appear.

hdve

stories

and

clutch

vast

the Haunted

to

up

in his
as

comes

nearer

ground

while

floor.

and

rises

body

withdraws,

distance, moving
the

wine-stained

Haunters

supernatural manifestation

from

clasping.

the

across

gore)

with

deformed

terrific

his hand,

In

confounding,

fear

anguish gasping

trunk

heard;

were

ghosts appeared;

of

train

grim

with

guest

sounding

shrieks

yells and

Hideous

Then,

staircase

the

up

showing
to

seat

the
of

head

life apart from

itself

horror

in

of

the

ghostly mind

or

its function
the

each

or

the

of

haunting

heart, liljea
main

body.

Modern

Ghosts

91
^

And

this idea

determined

of

detached
for

agent

I haven't

heart, bleeding and


haimt

the

written

physician

dismembered

limb

of

such

if

each

back

tion.
fic-

to

to

will be

stories

await

outraged

seek

to

woman's

would

terrors

as

by itself

all

perhaps

what

came

horror

up

surgeon

or

acting

new

coming

but

think

form

instance

an

broken,

And

soon.

careless
or

found

deserting lover,

the

adds

revenge

yet

as

of

part

the
organ
on

vengeance

him!

Ghosts

of modern

reality than
stronger,

fiction

the

of

early

specters

vital; there

more

more

Ghosts

than

are

used

they

resemblance

in

homely

hair

He

hair,

in

shape,

queer

whiskers

somehow
move

darker
a

mouth

This

that

good

deal.

is wide,

seems

and

his

an

wraith-like, yet

very

ing
distress-

wrinkle, each

photographic

close-curling, and

red

as

his

hair.

particularly arched
His

hope.

governess's description

straight, good

as

are

prospects

over-with

freckle, each

of the

red,

with

same

of the Screw.

Turn

very

the

such

for

of

strong

handsome

more

basis

no

the

to

be

clearness

lifelikeness

the

red

face, long

the

to

carried

are

with

showing

has

gives

detail, each

Quint in The

of Peter

hoped

Fiction

to

Note

proof.

discouraging

have

of appearance

faithfulness
gray

is

that

death,

before

alive

more

before

as

now

of

in these

muscle

active,

more

is

personality

state.

Peculiarities

There

who

persons

future

the

of looks

immortality
of

be.

to

to

healthy,

more

are

strengthening

ghostly tissue, a stiffening of supernatural


days.

They

times.

be

to

seems

their

in

convincing

are

eyes

are

and

features
His
as

pale
little

eyebrows are
if they might

sharp, strange, awful.

His,

lips thin.

imspectral descriptiop,for
a

red-headed

unnaturallywould

be

red

ghost that
alarming.

She

hair is not

lifted
says

its

brows
eye-

of him:

"He

Each

"

in

disfigurement is retained,

Middle

in the

ghostly vine,

make

identification

The

spirits described
lips and
in De

to

him

meet

shameful

from

him.

with

half

cloaked

of

never

stuff

olden

must

be

phantoms

seems

comes

to the

turned

ghost

one

not

and

fewer

by

heavy

of

the

with

as

nite
defi-

as

regarding

more

difficult

than

of humanity,

ably
quite conceiv-

ghostly garments.
And

why

ready

to

well

were

giant

forbids

the

have

clothes

wore

them,

their

familiar

that

it

do

they

and

of every

tilt with

in

Armor

armor.

and

of

extended

is

incongruous

to

accouterments

weapons,
to

The

the

He

Gothic

remembers

one

so

were

knightly spook.

Walpole's novel.

carrying
been

spiritswere

rival ghost.

panoplied

armor

of less radical

masculine

seems

shields

accompaniments

to

of clothes

people

when
and

now

ever

It is

ghosts might

so

be

to

seem

of

times

the
law

us

spectral clothes

of

even

ghostly function, yet


necessary

There

ghost-clothes made?

are

part identified

material

that

interesting feature

an

immortality

tissue

out

stylesthan
in

Oliver's

its face

shows

living fashionables.

itself,but

wear

In

constituted

the

bodily

what

Sir

recognizes her,

figure has

Middleton

horror.

his way

he

to

red, voluptuous

on

that

life,so

in literature.

the

renew

Of

of

spirit of

mausoleum

concerning

understand
for

neglected

tales

have

the

hooded

and

apparel

conventions

garb

Stoker

foot

face.

supernaturalism

to

in

Jessie Adelaide

Ghostly

the

her

as

is

in

toe

lacking

Affair of Dishonor,

An

passes

duel, limps
the

though

he

the

present

and

cheeks,

Morgan's

as

in

Bram

by

missing

Nothing

forth.

so

absolute

pink

mother,

and

Right Foot,

the

of

Toe

the loss of the

as

skull, the

screaming

Crawford's

Bierce's

living,dangerous,

presence.

minor

tooth

this occasion,

absolutely, on

was

detestable

the

Ghosts

Modern

92

ticularly
par-

Nowadays

which

ghostdom

tion
restricas

well.

Modern

Specters

thus

are

scarcely expect
toting

placed

to see

beholder

the

be

noted

shroud,

while

season

men

that

witches

with

the

and

has

of

to

of

three

ghosts, one
and

in

the

is

so

scarcely

know

of

one

of

Matthew

Mr.

Morley's

him

to

see,

we

in

tights and
pig-tail,
They

we

the Stairs.

see

quickly

so

instances.

fiction evidence
shows

Gerould^

of

blue dress, one

warrior

wearing

(We

because

do

they

only
often

not

have

depicts

cloth,
loin-

see

the

shade

a
a

side-whiskers."
which

buttons
that

he

glint of

clad

man

those

'

addition

By

to

glanced through

prim waist-coat.
a

of

ghostly spectacles,a

wears
a

we

In

us

snake,
rattle-

suit, mid- Victorian, "with

boots, and
the

ghosts
compared

change

in later

scowl.

Arnold

observe

tone

their

Modern

stylesnow

Fullerton

Zulu

tweed

coat-tail

is the

of clothes

matter

Co-operative Ghosts'"

wraith

red.

is

wraiths

many

also, whereas

all in most

at

woman

this

why

Gray

choose

the

specters this

that

attired.

ghostly garments
of

ate,
appropri-

suitable, yet
the

and

is

so

of the

ghqst is hopelessly pass6 before he

ghosts, perhaps

modesty.)

On

since

nose-ring, and

In

the

Katherine

variety.

'

in

materialize

their

familiar

black

other

frequently

are

of

thus

One

reminiscent

Most

in

that

figures from

ball.

innocence,

tastes

went

earlier ones,

Examples

in the

and

are

disadvantage

time

nude

Uke

seems

gloom,

modern

decidedly

so

White

the

petrified at

phantoms

gray.

women

forbears

at

cow-boy-

in which

seem

look

now

is gray.

in

Styles

women

youth

color

and

ancient

would

one

Texas

garments

by shades, yet the fact remains

both

are

of

masquerade

connotes

dressed

are

affected

of

as

favored

really

at

is that

black

the

ghosts

in white.

or

well

as

in

last in life.

guests

or

in black

seen

the wraith

even

old-time

that

movies
to

disadvantage, for

appear

them

saw

so

point

at

93

pistol.

Specters usually
death

Ghosts

small
P.

boy's blue

Converse.

In

ling's
Kip-

blouse,

Modern

94

while

Kipling

another

around

in his comical

robbed

of

Other

Ghosts

youngster,

children

soldiers

in the

same

are

I do

not

mold
in

garments,
of graves.
save

Albigenses

The

the

and

The

gatherer.
of

Neither

Gothicism

he

by

him

alive ; she
hand

the

months

dead
in

ghost
Guest

the

'

Heritage

side

the

on

it drove

the

huddled

on

in

red

from

of

in her

bed

to

unbudging

stairs.

another

the

whole

costume

in

have

as

of
much

modern

ghost

ful
dread-

back

Think

his

and

the

and

of

wonder

No

wedding

night

of

ghost

hounds

betrayer of his

red

The

silently

spirit that

variety

Gray

Bacon's

instances

ghost in

oil-skins.

wet

turned.

revenge

us

one

stolidly and

spend

his murderer

ocean

and

We

relentless

in

brown
to

eight

; in The

Daskam
sits

right

shows

has

revenge

its back

husband

young

Crawford

and

her last

saw

long military cloak

Josephine

scribed
is de-

woman

coat

in

Wool-

in her

(A

velvet

wreak

with

Blackwood

wears

brown

' '

left.

and

to

in which

handkerchief

card-case!)

in

an

Kipling's story

dress

tiny

same

in

by

the

ocean

on

the

in
mad

in

wronged

back

the

vest,

daughter,
is

apparition

spook

being haunted

wraith

by the

driven

knee-breeches

of

child

any

The

is dressed

the

Hogg's

wraiths

military boots, while

eccentric

and

baby

card-case

ghost coming
The

I discover

returning Napoleon

and

of gray

on

the

with

purple

soilure

victims

the

same

any

gracefully
'dis-

on

pitiful spirits of baby

"wearing

as

recall

him.
'

the

has

carried

and

did

Englishman

woman

murdered

that

be

not

spectral blood-stains

save

struts

would

he

said to have

story

dirty clothes."
Gothic

which

first trousers

by the German

even

war-ghost/

shirt.

There

appropriateness

fiction

as

in

Broadway

melodrama.

point of difference

Another
and
'

In

'

By

those

Swept

and

Laurence

of the
Garnished.

Clarke.

between

past is in the

the

extension
'

Phantom

specters
of their
Rickshaw.

of today
ave-

Modern
of

nues

approach

varied

more

weU

and

sight
that

Gothic

well

as

seen

and

nowadays

more

they

haunt

and

hearing.

not

heard

The

that

and

worked

the

will.

if

might

haunt

brown

taste

might

Bon

Bon

in

and
of

mouths

the

who

to

instead

of being

merely riotous

appeal

discussed

so

form

be

not

of

supernatural

turn

on

the

stories

has

fact
Man

a.

an

something

as

is

the

that

shut

being

an

room

in

Ambrose

Bierce's

of
story of invisibility,

The
a

dark

that

some

medium

But

being,
that
La

terrible

Damned

something

G.

H.

unseen.

ghost; yet

straight ghost

few

him

In

horrible

is

nightmare

is terrific in its effect.

with

ment
ele-

fiction.

most

not

Horla

the

very

later

is

been

already

of the

eating, drinking, reading, sitting on


mad.

the

is not

and

new

and

yet definite

unseen

in his

that

livers

haunter

power

that

ghosts

here.

human

Maupassant's

invisible

knows

curdling

possess.

story of

is

gastronomic

sight has

manifestation

that

against

through

mentioned
in

spirits

devoured

were

general visibility,some

Invisible

story

victim

need

the

eats

livers?

the

to

invisibilityenters

Wells's
the

ghosts

of

spite of the
tales

of

express

ing
appetiz-

very

knows

itself

striving

of the

haunting dyspepsia

riotous

specter

has

less
doubt-

folk-tale

he

conceivable, too, that

cannibals;

The

what

imagine

sight

as

though

them

says

ill-tempered spook

an

It is

find

and

impression

writers
is

But

them

to

of

There

soon.

in Poe's

One

fiction

sense

that.

open

medium

ghosts and

eat

devil

result

as

out

wolves

of mortals.
could

taste

the

being. Ghosts

touch, the smell, as well

exploited by

it will be
Skibos

the

through

us

are

as

to

sixth

with

content

contact

classical

the

to

is

senses

general only

supernatural

were

of

points

been

yet

and

The

of course,

as,

of

in

the

to

earlier times.

realizes the presence

were

his

in

ghosts appealed

hearing,

95

Ghostly appeal

us.

than

now

the

as

to

Ghosts

The

determined

night after night,

his

chest, driving him

Thing
that

is

gruesome

is abroad

with

Ghosts

Modern

96

".w

unearthly

the

by
light from
the

and

who

Another

seen.

"^

violently attacks
abnormal

has

for

its

the

on

cast

have

to

men

and

is

it dies

tUl

visible.

mold
of

that

is

by
is

the

trail it leaves

never

of

As

seen.

that

anything

brave

invisibilityhave

that

of

One

tender

Strange Land,
his way

on

home

for him.
while

his

dead

at

home

he

he

little

the

make
of

and
hears

He

son

something,

some

with
but

impotently stretching
the
'

"

tell them

messenger
What

By

Was
Katherine

It?

will meet.
them

the

that

he

Fitz-

been

while

is preparing
hurt

joy

when

hear

him.

man

them

O'Brien.

; but

of

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awed

his
his

enters

whispers

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to

he

are

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wreckage

with

is dead.
James

in In

thinks

influence,

arms

stories.

wreck

the

than

invisibility

under

or

is all.
his

in

has

poet's heart

that
out

he

But

see

strange

Mystery, by

Butler.

of

whimsically

swears

and

afraid

intense

his wife

under

mangled

interruption

cannot
aware

lies

home.

some

vaguely

dinner

body

little group

happy

birthday

that

yet it

not

ghost is told

the

know

it and

in other

suddenly

not

ing
mov-

of supemar

more

killed

does

seen

am

stories

man

to

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spirit hurries
breath

of

it,"I

element

invisible

an

be

never

beneath

spirits is shown

present

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breathing

it is audible

these

so

tales.

story of

of

plaster

absolutely

grass

chilling horror

ghostly

unmistakably

of

said

man

see!"

can

tural

most

is

behind, for though


a

in

may

along only by the bending of the

that

bed, showing its

is heard

Elemental

never

only by

tied

imprisoned
that

is

being

and

the

on

starvation, yet
Fire

horribly

and

figure

overpowered

taken,

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struggles with

studying it, but

struggles

mattress,
its

which

central

ured
meas-

the
shutSjjX)ff

finally kills

been

has

strength, that

imprint

loudly

till it

be

can

which

grasses,

it passes,

as

men,

man

movements

the

objects

with

the

mangles

of

bending

other

dogs

evil, whose

of

power

the
his
are

by it,
that

stands
till he

he

by,
hears

Modern

Ghosts

variable

are

The

appearance.

Gothic

other

times

specter,

real

at

Gothic
voice

in

such

strains.

surety

the

on

the

incongruous

king's English,

be

for

not

guilty of

the

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in

look

volumes

explain the

may

classical

variation

and

in the

later

fluent.

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for

ghost

invisible
The
as

this goes

he

does

ghosts
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it does

come

as

at

sing'in

case,^
"a

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duet
Wilkins

their

in A

her

Freeman.

of

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ghosts

hear

are

modern
The

do.

music

mysterious

visitation, but
to

be.

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'

heavenly
is

song

spirit

Voices.

similar

ghosts

to

it used

funeral, and
'

word.

well.

as

Far-away

woman's

by

of the

notion

Ghostly

death.

cases

terrifyingly

are

freedom

than

living alone

where
at

as

by

no

is

the

supernatural

common

issue

some

utter

of

many

fond

of

the

the

matter

non-speaking

voiceless

was

specters be
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takes

rule

but

the

the

he

times,

spinster sisters

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are

is less

portent.. of

as

what

nique
tech-

on

to murder

in

phantoms

prove

ghostly

proper

dodged

drama.

romance

ghostly music

two

to

accompaniment

an

for

other

of

diSiculty in the

fiction,for

eloquently silent, while

lack

ghost

of threats

Elizabethan

in the

errors.

or

by
in

lay

dialectic

writers

reason

lifted

brief

to let their

The

bosom

overstrong

giving their ghosts brevity of speech,


letting them

speech

usually

the

illiterate

presents

perchance

so

was

to

as

hesitated

an

in his

guilty

for that

were

even

which

he

spoke

writers

have

may

The

fluently.

the

to

reason

authors

they

lest

realism,

he

tions
appari-

faked, frequently

as

as

part

sUent.

converse

ten'or

part of the

they

fluent

well

as

most

classical

impediment

an

well

as

the

sometimes

could

when

Gothic
and

of

he

Perhaps

diction.

seem

had

brought

Yet

utterance.

too

and

song

for

were

and

vocal

sometimes

sounds

to

respect

occasion, and

on

sometimes

ghost

while

talk

97
'

with

early ghosts

silent, yet could


were

Ghosts

In

where
music

heard

back

comes

Crawford's
'

Yet

Man

in
to

ghost ^
Overboard.

Modern

98
constantly
In

whistles

lover's

life

could

Crawford's

and

his way

followed
the

When

the

the

the

comes,

clamor
New

such

of

presence

His

Keeping

invisible

'

In

In A

John

silence.

suggestion.
outer

door,

knocking
who

two

key's
Mon-

from

at

hear
the

are

dead.

breathed,

utter

import than

been.
are

introduced

the
of

ancient
the

that

the
is

modem

is

heavy,

heard, and

of Fire, by Blackwood.

ghostly tales,

manifestation

spirit^ followed

enchanted

Promise

Thing

in

Inglesant.

Nemesis

in the

in its

dreadful

more

body

in The

at the

been

as

supernatural
of

back
has

of

terrible

power

for the

wish

magic

Empty

thud

after

as

come

peculiar hissing

crashing

is

chilling awe

presence

silence

has

the

last

sounds
as

and

is

the

the

loudly

more,

tread

screams

tensely than

knocks

strange

as

smothered

story of superlative

and

occur

heavy, rushing feet,

of

silence

more

thrill of

this

when

silence

the

shown

that

same

that

Then

sudden

gate in Macbeth,

sure

sounds

doll

of the

in Blackwood's

re-enacted, then

ghostly visitant

feel the

we

of

is nowhere
^

and

king,

of

might

one

firm, audible

stairs," after which

effect

Paw,

with

as

voice

feet

scuffling and

is

the

awful

story

mechanical

walks

with
of

murder

down

sounds

the

the

move

noise

ancient

The

appall

ghosts

by

thrown

her

save

peculiar example

children's

Strafford'

to

the

to

in

"

more!

tiny pattering

of its

Lord

House

giriwho

much,

so

Ghost, that

Doll's

fiction, not

click

sounds.

cause

honor

yet humorous,

the

on

I not

preternatural
nor

father's

thee, dear,

love

not

Loved

think,

young

sings sadly,
"T

In

her

betrayed

times

of the

wraith

the

during life.

of

fond

been

had

he

tune

Co-operativeGhosts

Cromwellian

Ghosts

flames.

by

the

In

Blackwood's

creaking
"

By W.

crackling

breathing

stertorous

the

of the

W.

of the
Jacobs.

of

bed

Modern

weighted

down

by

brings

in

of his

Wendigo

of

as

power."

Kipling

are

of "the

his

beyond,"

forth.

These

deeply

The

leave.

story,

the

and

stories,such

dying,

the

oft-mentioned

places, the
not

of

cry

only of the

whole, the
varied

sounds

in

individual

and

haunting

the

their

mocking
banshee
but

body

in modern

types,

than

was

and

sounds

to

he

clankings

are

Gothic

less wailful

their
that
the

soul,

little

which

the

is the

of the

as

supernatural

sion.
expresrecur

bed
in

in

of the

empty

presage

well.
stories

of
On
are

expressive of separate

more

with

the

laughter

which

in

automobile.

an

in

above

feet

the

made

sounds

hood,"
child-

Middleton's

of

articulate

horror, and

suggestion

of

some

they dread

specters

death-rap

in

through

that

ghostly

the

as

speaks

ghosts of Kttle

Richard

modern

more

He

lifelike

earth

few

groans

definite

are

various

more

the

imitations

the

earlier, but

the
There

death

in

introduces

lugubrious

mournful,

than

and

the

boy

child-

evasion,"

himself, invisibly, through

fiction

and

chains

the

ghost

heart-breaking

ghostly

romance

of

from

near

The

of

patter

steps, the rustling of the leaves

and

Later
of

little

manifests

prancing
runs,

homesick,

hover,

touching

giggles of

chuckles

coming

as

and

absorbed

the

essentiallychildlike

pathetic

that

ones

child

and

"joyous

of abominable

to tears.

squeaking

frock

and

children.

speaks

crying voice,

novel

near

of

Freeman

Blackwood

wild

ghostly

chuckle

of

Wilkins

windy,

introduces

"sudden,

rustle

of

sort

yet sometimes

light mischief,"

room

Mary

untamed,

of

utterly happy
"the

"a

and

stories

gay,

99

story, while

having

as

lonely

wraiths

are

in

something
in

so

body.

ghostly crying

sounds

the

the

Ghosts

an

the

intensified
case

with

power

the

of

earlier

forms.
The

ancient
'

The

sense
or

of smell
Gothic

was

not

noticeably exploited

ghost stories,though

Passing of'Edward.

certain

in the

folk-tales,

Hawaiian

as

devil

was

stories

of

the

supposed

to

be

Calderon's
that

while

moderns,

not

attention

but

subjective than

they
have
the

The

awful

an

dead

floating

head,

The

odor.

fumigating

or

of the

sea

lower

berth

There

are

to

the

awful

Wendigo.
El

By

the

one

certain

less

are

tionalized
conven-

cleverly

supernatural

ghost

emitting

foul

supernatural

of

out-door
In

Crawford.

the

with

away

full

odor

that

As

remove.

force

of

something

decaying

intolerable

'

"

smell.

that

with

"ghost

acrid, pungent
the

announces

of

out

in the

man

associated

queer,

Kipling's story*

of

comes

unearthly

called

odor

sea

amount

Thing

odors

when

an

it,the

the

which

no

"

lions, which

and

is

as

ghostly tales,as
of

there

strange, foul

are

mysteriously

man

and

stateroom

in recent

on

itself

Finally

appears

the

animals

thirteen

account,

to

tells of

its victim

carry

preternatural

ghost manifests

can

ceiling and

airing will

Magico Prodigioso.
F. Marion

they

disinfectants.

the

Berth'

definite

like the

smell

'

no

unforgettable strange odor,

an

the

iant,
var-

seem
so

number

room

any

room,

near

gets

supernatural

of

by

Upper

infests

that

of

In

for which

in the

is put

the

of

especially sympathetic

woman

more

more

not

These

Hotel," the

nostrils.

removed

be

cannot

when

effective.

manifestations
Haunted

stench

are

Odors
are

been

lasting quality too, for they linger

very

able
consider-

pit, are

sounds, and

or

But

matter.

fiction

distinctive.

unusually

are

the

through

the

in

novels, but

devil has

of later
of

fumes
and

sights

other

In

past.

odors

ally
usu-

notice

pay

The

odors.

was

we

the

of

ghostly fiction,hence

in

after

the

individual

more

scents

evil

the

than

objectionable

as

partial to brimstone,

so

he

Gothic

the

extent

supernatural

to

dry-cleaned,

the

for

odor,
scents,

of

some

about

be

to

seems

evoked

and

drama,'

bad

in

The

world, speak of it.

lower

sulphurous

by

accompanied

Ghosts

Modern

100

by
a

the

presence

Indians,
whose

man

By WiUde

Collins.

The

of the

Mark

Beast.

Modern

soul has
a

been

stolen

leper priest

and

by Indian
beast's

sickened

are

beasts, and

by

the

when

horrid

doggy

Sometimes

the

ghastly

it flowers

with

the

subtlest

most

O.

and

the

to

for

who

man

is

her, merely

as

through

it is

But

haunting

the

him

having

but

element

has

which

The

departed.

story of this type

girl reveals
the

over

flower

the

is

herself

big city

seemed

familiarities

as

relaxed

she

Of

in

castle

as

stand

ancestors'

hands.

of

taught
As
The

flattened

to

in Here

Furnished

did

Modern

restrain
and

and
he

other

are

their

the

hurl
not

curses.

incline

Room.

ghost

free

easy,

in

less

their

much

out

content

was

to

have

they

so

striking.
to

for

Fortunately

and

have

this

hapless youth

ghosts, however,

There, by Alice Brown.

spectral

crushing specter

instances

Gothic

impulses

in

too

the

the

earlier

spooks

mortals

shade

remembers

one

there

nerves,

of

This

unwelcome

on

presvime

is

loathsome,

their

fiction, but

later

become

that

distance

to

fashion

general thing

at

in

visitant

The

know

to

form

worst

is

stories.

recent

ready

so

the

course,

effectually,and

the

of horror.

dimax

reserved,

have

manners.

Otranto

in

more

those

and

age

that

supernatural

is the

you

not

followed

doubtless

But

be

to
were

of touch

is direful, smelling him

much

in

place better,

'

form

of

brings

woman

mignonette,

Seeing

touch

comes

ghosts

'

of

sense

comes.

terrible,hearing him

on

whiff

heavenly perfume

loved, dead

whiff

as

dead

desperately hunting
a

"such

loved.

most

of

the

visible

the

back

comes

causes

comes

presence

delicately haunting

where

Henry's,^

what

of wild

"

with

spiritin

^his companions
as

he

and

asks

spirit of

in masses,

lingers after

stench

of

curse

"

air and
air.

the

put in its place,

is removed

in the

the

through

intolerable

an

smeU

where

perfvime,'

loi

magic

soul

curse

himself, he snififs the

to

Ghosts

the
not
venture

our

laying
been
on

Ghosts

Modern

102

liberties

RadcliflEian

that

would

romance

have

proved
disap-

of.
The

Damned

stiff

struggle

in

describe.

which

the

O'Brien
that

power

shows

is tied

only

fightsviolently

upper

berth

in my

and
but

gripped

thing.

I fell the

itself upon
face
struck

violent

fell forward

The

but

never

Yet

ghost

goes

away.

the

touch

fiction

loving

of

touches

longing

Fred

is

to

the
as

C.

seemed
him

saw

It

dead

of the

arms
so

me,

to

being, and

throw

to

on

seemed

Psychical

chill

of

or

icy touch

his feet

his

that

he

me

then,

of the

is not

the

supernatural.

he, too,

than

the

incident

well,

burn

only

one
are

living.
in

In

mark

or

in
as

wards,
After-

spirit hand.

There

the

as

only

heat.

well, expressing yearning


with

not

Society

burning

leaves

touch

communicate

Smale.

and

I last

itself upon

hold.

frequently described,

of horror

beautiful

more

By

in the

the

cases

'

touch

supernatural

brings

'

the

horrible

corpselike

left my

me

set.

living,

men

overpowered

fell and

it

long dead

man

ten

its

and

across

of

and

words,

face.

in reports

of

being

be

his

on

and

lips

at

in the

Thing

it thrust

it wound

arms;

When

his

abnormal

slippery,oozy,

thing;

dead

sprang

blow

ghostly

fiction

in

and

the

might,

aloud

captain.

white

the

of

strength

living death,

thing

the

was

the

the

the

my

body

like the

had

all my

last I cried

the

at

And

to

strength.

was

with

neck,

my

As

it with

nearly broke

around
that

and

I wrestled

and

me

It

it moved,

yet

to free itself.

ghostly, horrible, beyond

grasp.

words

effort, and

tremendous

awesome

an

something

was

moved

had

after

in

terrible

of

being

dog

after

master

terrible

Idlls

being

disfigured beyond

is

man

which

It

slays the

later

fight, then

muscular

of

example

an

mysterious

for the

supernaturalism,
a

gives

Thing

tain
cer-

that

introduced
tender
love

and
and

What

They?

could
"I

felt

Modern
relaxed

my

hands

of

of my

palm

to close

And

in

taken

child.

The

d3dng day

my

only

moment

The

Ghost's

course

of

spirit to
but

the

as

The

is least

feels the

widow*
who

is dead

hand

has

and

from

The
the

power

'

A
la

Pair

his

and

new

disembodied

with

The

to

give

to

the

her

Eleanor
The
in

earlier forms,

for

the
of

after

her

having
that

knows

His

cliff where

ghost

he

know

may

lips.

message.

she

has
the

"spiritualkiss"
touch

showing

is

an

pressive
im-

marks

and

fiction

recent

not

hand

and

feels

hands,

on

the

some

that

so

feels.

asks

she

"

of the

edge

killed,

strength

of

access

an

psychological analysis.

and

of contrast

ghosts

of Hands,

when

funds

trust

that

sense

husband's

clasped by

hand

in Poe's

is in the

helpless creattires
'

her

the

point

ghosts

to-day.

of

over

imaginative

older

on

unmistakably

her

Ups of his beloved.

advance

Another

of

mysteriously disappeared

been

lover

motif
an

kisses

seeking

and

over

truth.

for

"

speaks of

reader

return

physically, and

feels her

gently leads

fallen

the

the

clasp of her

absconded

presumably
he

leads

easUy self-deceived, the

sign, the ghost

husband

rested

Collins

to

swear

follows:

as

describes

only psychically but

Another

stole and

Wilkie

Touch,

I will

says,

little hands

long ago."

very

"

widow

further

woman

center

expected

once

devised

soft

^not

"

that

sense

the

occurring in the obscurity of midnight


vision nor
seen
a
searching light of day; neither
as
voice
knowledge through
^revealingitself to mortal

earth

in the

heard

fingerswere
"

the

'

two

It

softlybetween

code

mute

this narrative

ground.

strange

the

^in mine!"

"

The

story,

which

story,

that

turned

103

little brushing kiss fell in the

fragment of

similar

and

gifton

as

"

"

hand

Ghosts

the

between

enjoyed by

greater freedom
of

in the

ancestors

our

main

and

by Quiller-Co'uch.

OutiLast Walk, by Hugh

Conway.

and

modem

the

were

Gothic

the
of

those

weak

specter

and
was

Modern

104

tyrannized

such

to

over

call his shade

his

latchkey and

asserted

local habitation

a-days
feminists
Gothic

and

sensitive

they have
Gothic

the

in later

nor

Neither
as

the

was

the

rule

hour
ton

Gerould

come

at

brings

in the

Ghosts

since

each

Wilkins
has

Ghost

but

the

specter

'

By

N.

the
M.

the

in

as

did

for their

occur

lessening of

town

Lloyd.

to

the

the

on

of the
the

of

Fuller-

ghosts

that

Wood

Georgia

seashore
that

dark,

arbitrary

Katherine

ghosts

hours

set

any

as

morning,

noon,
mid-after-

in

in

appear

dependent

not

are

Gothicism,

in

Since

but

modem

family vaults

light
day-

choose

may

household
as

and

story

Charles
located

in Harmony^

is set

complains

loudly

which

has

in
of

ments
arrange-

a
a

the

lost interest

there

such

Egbert
in

any

general thing, and

desert

to

ting
set-

upon

inconveniently located,

part of haunters

ghost

one

Last

of

like.

Freeman

The

mind

as

are

the

on

do

storms

tyranny

removed.

been

fiction

include

cemeteries

tendency
Mary

not

nor

air.

scenery

surroundings they
do

be,

so

lightning for

few

o'clock

one

various

open

in modern

of sullen

or

out

one

Kipling has

and

not

weather

of

interesting collection

an

o'clock

eleven

and

are

tempest

limited

The

Gothicism.

in

shows

Pangborne

certainly no

spiritsof to-day

apparitions,has

for

is

rule of twelve

autocratic

need

to

the

consequence.

the

are

the

comparatively

there

Yet

ghostly thrill in

do not

over

supernatural play

threats, and

fiction.

they used

as

be

to

up

Ghosts

Now-

"caused

have

would

influence

They

setting

have

may

stay there.

to

horror.

now

active

an

phantoms.

wild

with

swoon

acquired

has

He

are

privileges that

dared

hardly

to-day

obliged

women

barometer

materialization
their

spectral

to

such

of

independence.

isn't

he

have

the

to

his

but

wraiths

spook

he

that

extent

an

The

own.

the

even

Ghosts

is

quarters.
Craddock

graveyard,

and

burying-ground,
unsentimental
in

ghosts, and

Modern

leaves

in

disgust.
"

castles, those
and

modem

in the

Likewise

the

105

domination

of the

ghaist-alluringedifices," has

spooks

confined

not

are

They

past.

Ghosts

where

appear

to

Gothic

passed

localityas

one

any

in

they mil,

away

the

most

prosaic places, in cheap lodging-houses, in hall bedrooms,


in

bungalows,

ships, and
of

in

forth.

so

desert

of such

sand

Algernon

bears

Leigh

good

one,

be

as

they

as

The

houses

mere

calls his

own

the

structure

new

house

he

up,

lot, which

is

buUt

ordinary habits

of

section, trying
to

avail.

no

and

the

to

that

its

owner

at

the

merrily

Algernon

Blackwood

haunted

within

by

that
the

Then
is fond

evil

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terrors

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parents,

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persons

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instances

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treasure,
to

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dead.

romance.

vanishing

ghosts

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hiding-place
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cremation

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ing
burial, since lack-

fiction, perhaps

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spooks

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fiction,for it is

out

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show

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to

return

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is reconciled

ghost

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was

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the

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spectral

motives

he

or

ever,

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loss of the

earth

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appears

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than

gambols.

decided

principal impulse

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to

his

of motives

without

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varied

by

present-day

new

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show

matter

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it is true,

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the

subtle

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reveal

is

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scant

death.

parentage,

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in

Ghosts

Modern

114

terror

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romance.

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statistics

usually keep

such

instances

do

sometimes

occur.

Ghosts

in

the

romance

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on

extent

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Dickens

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in

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last

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ghost of

death.

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sees

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us.

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herself

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saw

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futurity
as

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children.

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persons

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body

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figure that

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principally

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extraordinary

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hideous

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type is in Robert

of the

end

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of his wife's

instead

death

motif.

figure in Elizabethan

the

magician

such

on

fiction

embodied

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instances, and

as

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through

ghost story

novel.

example

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records

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large in

back

character

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plots hinging

supernaturalism,
comes

life

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Death's

man

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in another

terrible

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of

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drama,

murdered

hundreds

ghost looms

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of Avenel

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the

was

of bad

to

serves

in fiction

Lady

revenge

of that

show

is made

use

Scott's

those

115

conveyance

threatening danger,

Psychical

as

for the

present with

much

Ghosts

at

last

his bed

mattress

at

he

killing
night,

beside

the

Ghosts

Modern

ii6

dead

man

whose

come

back

in

of his

physical embodiment
cold

by

sometimes

and

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the

through

officer

sailor back

in wet

the

two

the

other

of the

bodies

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to

wash

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turn

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revenge

ghost

in modem

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than

drama

one

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dead

corpse,

rattle

in forms

varied

more

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revenge.

in

suggestion

conventionalized

type

dreadful

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has

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subtle

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wife's skull in another

screw

fiction is

the

at

drowned

loved.

newly

ing
strik-

strikes

brother

both

; while

in the

ghostly psychology,

twin

is

one

of lead

times

at

nowhere

sends

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in oil skins

accusing lump

manifestation,

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for

roll-call,just

from

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visible

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Crawford

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ashore

skeleton

heart.

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him

impersonated

the

spirits

many

sometimes

to

bullet

mysterious

us

soldier

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moment

shows

betrayal

the

avenge

has

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horror.

revenge,

where

as

unseen,

officer

an

awful

and

to

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Ambrose

daughter.

animated

mad

rigid with

is

face

most

of
and

of the
forms

of fear.
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general, the

of power

in

used

well

as

earlier

the

employing

psychology

far

as

ghosts

stories show

modem

greater
limited

were

moved

are

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needlessly

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alone.

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knew
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in many

cases

Military Executions.

impulses, and

their

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impulses

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him
so

he

himself

punishment

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range

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tried

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so

reserve

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someone

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conscience

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too

those

have

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motivation.

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cases

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complex

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by

in many

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in

earlier forms

that

range

comparatively

was

apparitions of to-day.
motives,

motives

greater intensity

and

his

for
let

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by sheer evil that

wreaks

it-

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self upon

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within
that

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has

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power

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as

another,' showing

human

in

beings

where

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and

witchcraft

of

bands

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out

holds

side

outlawed

force

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hostile

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stories

prevent
the

second

interloper

extreme

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of

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man

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overdose

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to

prevent

their

loved

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till finallythe
'

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after

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wife

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wife

life

the

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man

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ghost
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to

spare

Secret Worship.

instance

give him

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has

who

courtship

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who

suitor

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in Arnold

spiritof

haunts

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^isfound

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ceremony.

to

for

life wretched

make

of the

beyond.

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physician conspired

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to

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mischief.

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written

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of

of malicious

impulse

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hypnotic

with

viciously against

Stoker,

have

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spirit of

village in thrall, and

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and

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building,

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take

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horror

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back

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to

to

believe

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part

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us.

upon

himself

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on

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hanged
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of

have

itself to

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of damnation

stories

man

reservoirs

are

moment

any

down

us

lives

mortality
im-

dangerous

are

manifests

Blackwood

terrible

whose

results

hate

Algernon

all around

gives

those

to

the

discarnate

reach.

that

or

of power

access

117

Death

range.

particularly evil, and

society.

in

anyone

Ghosts

of
or

the

madly

hers

and

kills

him,

man

she

Modern

ii8

loves, which
of
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by

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to

humor,

"

than

the

Gray

Ghost

who

and

lovers

haunt

convenience

which

"

inconvenience
Andrew

has

for

pokes

fun

at

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death

the

cockcrow

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and

intense.

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subtracts

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marriage

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spook in

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child

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human

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garments
"

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shape

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dead

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to

asks

in the

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his

saw

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phan-

little son,

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riian

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spirit, But

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thy God?-"

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of the

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thou

to which

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ridge
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one

tations.
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sweet

unhappy
Lord

than

revenant

sight of the Lord

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Psychic Invasion.

winter

ghostly fiction,

terrible

father, "I

uttered

answers,

have

is

but

"

emotion

passions

impressive

to

and

on

terms,

revenge.

more

says

Hamlet,

learnedly

technical

glow-worm

judge from

darker

power,

of Abel

in

may

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marriage

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a

name,

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to

materialization, speaking

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night, and

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the

frorn

made

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husband

her

child

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turned

authors

are

Lang's In Castle Perilous, that discourses

its

on

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tragedies.

story by that

her

of

spiritual

to other

instances

the

as

sense

greater

no

against his will

woman

be

Comer's

take

to

adopt it, much

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writer's

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stranger

fiction,such

attentions

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story !

in Cornelia

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asylum

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illustrated

be

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to

transferred

in

one

him

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set

she has

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drive

to

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brutality,

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comes

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"

departs.

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de

motives

varying

reference

and

sadly does,

of Marie

one

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Chamber.

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over

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after

ran

sands, and

steps of Cain
the

not

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during

the

idea

ghosts
for

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and

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doubles

with

evoke

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in modem

of advance

double,

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to

in

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stories

play, where
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is

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and

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slain

cries

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in-

forms

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suggestiveness,
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tinct
dis-

types.

personality,
seen,

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by

folk-tales.

with
been

out,

his

better

self, his

"Henceforward

thou

twists

suggested

origin in

of

being

one

different

himself.

tragic story

of

that

Calderon's

Poe's

William

pursued by

man

to

realize

conscience.

His

double, till in desperation he kills him, only

his

sonalities
per-

those

and

of German

germinal

is haunted

man

tense

dual

forms,

have
a

of separate

one,

earlier

Doppelganger

idea, yet much

these

'

the

examples

appearing

psychology

frequent figure in English fiction, bears

to

Numerous

and

constitute

the

over

is

living persons,

complex

in

know

not

It remained
in

memories.

stories, and

uncanny

marks
The

analysis,

elusive

at

Shakespeare's

ghosts of the

into

literature,nor

expertness

personality

ghosts of subliminal
in

detached

safely dead.
his

the

mortal,

I do

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supernaturally merged

appear

be

death.

classical

in

persons

of dual

cases

at

of

of the
to

late

the

reminiscent

body,

of

personality

double

romance.

writer
to

turbed
dis-

comparative

personality

curiously

permanently

spirits of

modem

of

intricate

dual

to

ghost is

of

psychiatry

the

of

are

in Gothic

all

are

behind

like Abel

was

interesting phases

life and

used

that

mists

"

study

instances

any

shape fled shrieking

like white

rose

projection of his actual

vapory

119

the

feet of him

respect

belief

and

sands

the

stories

supernatural

of

but

With

animistic

the

most

is

specters.

shape

sands.

the

ghost-lore

will

the

Ghosts

art

also

dead,

world,

the

dead

to

didst

exist and

is thine

the

shows

leads
the

to

further

by suggesting

the

weak
than

to

leads

him, Markheim

the

forth

walking
nature,

own

could

writer
than

dissection

in

with

hope

to

been

has

Jekyll and

instance

best-known

this

Dr.

Stevenson's

angel.

physical
separate
express

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soul.

make

scenes

this

Kipling has given


his

by
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through
he

found

walked

his

lonely

himself
out

hastily.

in all respects
of

is

man

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to

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idea

dramatic

course,

evil
its

The

detail at the

one's
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own.

powerfully

table.

ingly
seem-

of the

of

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body

table.
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man

the

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as

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vision
no

haunted

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came

of this

of

him

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own

the

form

the End

he

horror

of his

in

tenseness

in story

that

suicide, after which


the

is, of

allegory, this biological

in ^^

the

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real."

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the

this

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at

nobler

personality,

the
of

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house.

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the

of dual

figure slipped silently before

own

to be

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visitor

tempter,

thrill of suspense,

body,

phantom

own

Mr.

forrfi of

sermon
a

him

lessly
hope-

evil that

the

demonic

be,

it rather

nameless

existence

the

of

will

life is

from

is

sort

in this chemical

done

of the

of this

inexplicable mystery,
closing

back

stranger

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way

act

his

the

transfigured face shows

tUl at last the

surrender

to

shuddering

suggested, thinking

the

realizing that

Step by step

further.

sin

truth.

of each

involved, decides

and

of self-

him, by showing

to

consequence

despair Markheim,

till in

soul's

offering him

crime

man's

labyrinth

the

by

murderer

relentlesslywhat

him

of

stranger

of

the

through

knowledge

the

tests

of the

person

embodiment

an

him

thyself!"

murdered

hast

thou

me

image, which

this thine

in the

conscience,

examination

escape,

thou

In

hope!

to

by

see

utterly

Markheim

self that

stranger

death,

how

incarnate

nobler

and

Heaven

to

in my

own,

Stevenson's

is

Ghosts

Modern

120

shadow

went

dirmer
and

rose

it

was

haunting specter
and

soul, drives

peculiar twist

of horror

close, of the discovery by his

Modern

of the

comrade,
dead

retina

death.

and

In

the

living

devil, who

person

evil

imptilses that
Kendrick

John
face

with

the

the

to

fullest

and

musician

his

Titbottom,''

he

looks

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face

shown

are

in her

his

itself

bears

revelation

on

no

mark

at

the

his

end.

face

the

Edith

story of
who

was

horror

places at

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woman's

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relation

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pictured futurity.

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he

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portrait is in Oscar

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marble

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experience,

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face

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in her

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recognized,

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his

where

instance

himself

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flees

actual

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expressing

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of

mirror,

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Dorian

in

to

face

came

the

relates

power

and

impressive

most

human

of

of

of age
revealed

are

bit

symbolic representation

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marks

in

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to

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sight.

the

through

say,^ "I

double

cleverly masks.

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man's

ghost of

self in which

extent,

ghostly

reflecting his image


as

other

his

self incarnate.

ghostly

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his hero

after

chair, visible

the

on

the

on

dead

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that

evil life," and

an

his

has

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the

evil

own

of Night

living

myself, with

developed
for

is his

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hours

camera
'

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the

imprinted

allegory,

standing behind

man

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by

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photograph

own

reproduced

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spiritmeets
Edith

man's

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of

persons

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man

who

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122

knew

him

in each

miles

away

from

bed,

sleep that

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from

bodies, the

subtle

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G.

knows

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narrative

of

of

transfer

mysterious

drink, by which

of

man's

young

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of two

of

personality
old

an

into
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curse.

by

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his older
idiot

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interloper in

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by

stories
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Howe's

of

living woman

double

personality

Pullerton

Twain;

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this

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the
von

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'

Elizabeth

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Queen

Paul's

writings
Amim's

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it

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des

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the

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Jolly Corner, by
On

the Stairs,

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Carnival

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of

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in

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Bailey Aldrich;
and

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fiction.

in Die

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in Die

the

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comically

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become

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the

possess

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vital

woman

force

Ivory

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ling
drivel-

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lence
prevaits first

in almost

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Psychology,"

out

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says:

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all

given

neurotic

of Sheba, by Thomas

Bisland

German

M.

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article,"Romantic

in

dies

son

absence

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are

father's

vitality,his

immortal

Prank

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tales, reaching its climax

treats

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in his

motif

expression in Jean
of Hoffmann's

The

of Nineteenth

Currents
of

up

Hawthorne;

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in Main

Elixire

dead

actually

by George

Gerould;

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in

Shadow,

Transferred Ghost, by

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the

the

the
in

supermortally

obsess

to

through

is

describes

grave

possession
inhabit

his

utter

home,

with

necticutt,by Mark
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the

Blackwood

loses

and

of

result

to

of

power

deprived

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from

jealousy, making
'

inertia

Heaton

Mary

power.

the

brother, while

peculiar

supernatural merging

son

younger

effective.

takes

youth

mind, his personality, all of which


to

the

Algernon

describes

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is

as

man

the

dotard.

of the Twins

natures

insane

the

Elvesham

Mr.

alities
person-

fiction.

tmcannily

is

body, leaving

shell

worn-out

separate

ghostly

and

psychologic study

in two

personality

of two

in recent

appears

one

his

'

one

merging

many

lying asleep in

was

of

expression

train wreck

waking.

no

supernatural

into

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where

room

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in

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all

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in

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reincamation

this

motif, with

himself
the

the

to

of

of

study

the

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that

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back

comes

his friend
artist

himself

of the

friend

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has

dead

and
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being.
Granville

the

same

heart

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the

reveal

and

himself
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and

the

and

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alistic
materi-

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friend

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dead

indifferent.

of

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the

who

man

her

existence

is

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soul

lonely

piece of symbolism,

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to

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to which

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mother

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into

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manner

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on

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man

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dead

and

of death

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ago

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the

example

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is the

unto

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123

wife.

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crescendo

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of

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in

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has
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times

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thoughts
into

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upon

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actions

of the

their

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of

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and

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stumble

accident

the

on

all around

that

seems

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type of ghost story is that

essentiallymodem

of

dead

doubles

selves
that

specters of

are

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future, and

by

obsessed

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by

subliminal

feels that

he is his

yet he lacks

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possessed.

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frontiersman

no

of

actual.

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the

sees

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and

hears

who

is the

his

double

of

killed

her. lover.

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leave

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as

round

his

wife's

into

which

he

find

his hand

upper

room

he

picks

by

if

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her

to die and

have

has

up

alive

lover's

hands

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before
the

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waist

her

the

that

so

her

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the

depicts

the

up

he

cut

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ancient

in the
cannot

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of

been
off her

is found

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into

waist, and

facts

had

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goes

her
that

by

and

house, had
he

girl

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little

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same

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face.

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is

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floor

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to

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has

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having

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the

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long-dead ancestress,

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man

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a

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his

the

himself

an

case

in

memory

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chiffon!

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the

presents

old

haimting

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double

own

manifests

he

subliminal

the

pioneer
him

give

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makes

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affairs, the

to

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ghosts of ancestral

sees

forward

existence,

the

military

border

which

one

his

after

scene

prairie,during

setting yet

in

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more.

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is

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manhood,

visibly

comes

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courage

grandfather, living another

crisis

is

ghost of his grandfather.

self,the

pluck, the

who

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army

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clearly distinguished.

are

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He

Ghosts

Modern

124

wood's
Blackburied

Modern

life,of

whole

village enchanted

again the

over

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witchcraft

psychic doctor,

casually into
Vesin
intense
in

he

that

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and

past.

other

basis

claims

to be

where

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figures of Marie
the

daylight

given,

but

these

the

among

and

the

the

conclusion

that
most

study
the

of

ancient
is like

forms.

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had

illustrate

the

felt it

so

might

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type.

and

idea

thought

sort

are

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compared

as

times.

in

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the

some

unlike

some

regarded
to

modern

most

of moderns.

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ers
writ-

saw

power

ghost stories leads

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past,

into
and

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of later

book

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instances

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ghost

specter

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daughters

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simplicity

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present

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effective narratives.

most

illustrates

with

and

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queen's memories

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vividly long

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and

stories

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this.

as

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selves
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ago.

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can

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relived

past

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so

sense

magic:

centuries

confused

such

explanation

of the

pocket

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drops

arising out
over

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women,

in broad

saw

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psychical experience,

some

truthful

lived

living

John Silence,

into the

enough

was

Oxford

than

two

offer
of

man

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ago.

Englishman

said in

and

past

of forces

that

complete

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two

clergymen,
the

be

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is drawn

played

story of unusual

by

the

life and

forces

up

not

the

so

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often

long

vortex

past

may

were

perfect,
the

of

set

they

of

into the

had

actions

strong

tells

125

by

of the

village and

activities

which

case

the

swept

was

Ghosts

as

to

one

the

of ancients

respects
the

conjective

the

previous
or

purely

percipients'thoughts.

Modern

126

Primitive
and

times

the

has
weird

produced

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story.

in

development

intellectual

in

that

ourselves

ghosts

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of

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primitive

advance

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thus

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and

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than

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ghost

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knows

where

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as

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of

spook

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life

only

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French
zeal

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of

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specter

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passions of love

the villain

or

villainess

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foil them

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misdeeds,

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motions

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psychology

them.

with

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needs

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spirit who

wants

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help humanity,

hands

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tend

to

fiction

wash

to

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up

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the

form, the
lease
and

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that

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tales.
mind.

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undiminished
has
mines

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new

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of

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type.

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specter
sends

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as

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increase.

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representatime

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of the
at

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pen

to

interest

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be

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of

force.

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turn

influx of stories

future, it would
exhaustion

has

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popularity

of

philanthropic

new

new

modern

almost

side

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motivations

compound

short

ghost story,
each

on

the

novel
are

American

writers
write

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George

socialist

the

of

is

of the

more

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read

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basis

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of life.
the

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narrative

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times, and

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on

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do

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sheep,

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human

friendly visitor

supernatural.

explained

evil stored

the

the

the

the

scale

world, the

convert

magazine,

and

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to

the

as

hate, gratitude, and

wants

reads

modern

friendship, curiosity,

revenge,

impulses.

the

to

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subtle

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that

of

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are

heroine

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van

the

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run

hero

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such

in

punish them

or

interpret their hauntings

to

jealousy,

chaperon

emotions

Meredith.

designs
the

keep

to

127

over

satisfied

not

are

wicked

hovered

or

advise, comfort,

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continue

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there

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later

times.

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writers

of the

fear

for the

do

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in

fiction

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too

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for

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of

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give

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function

to

mortal

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him.

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love

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towards

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up

Ghosts

Modern

128

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in de

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rag,

"Dey

the

ob

king

De

no

ob

li'l black

he

Mose,

lizard, an' he say

Pa'm

Moldy

name

an'

he

hand

place

he

feel like

de

ghosts!"

through
youngster

night

and

the

assembly.

is loath
demurs

to

go

to the

Small
up

to

demand.

wonder

the

that

loft to bed

Ghosts

Modern

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ob

he

when
li'l

he
"I

black

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he

he

rub

skeered

wid

erlong

you

Whut

skeered

you

ghosts?"

no

Mose

an'

ain'

"Git

say,
ain'

day

An'

up

she

ma

129

ob

he
de

an'

Scrooge
an'

eyes

he

he

prisintly

whut

ghosts

twist

an'

he

say

right

ca'se

am,

dey

pucker
low

ain'

ghosts."
"

Den

whut

"Nuffin,"
"but

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jes'
lack

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say
feel
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you
de
kinder
folks.

skeered
li'l

black

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ob?"

boy
'bout
lack

ask
whut
de
white

he

ma.

he

ghosts
folks.

name

am

whut

Mose,
ain't!"

no

IV

CHAPTER

The

GHOSTS

but

Mather,

his

fair

the

form

soon

be

He

that

been

for

sporadic

is almost

cling with
cold

shoulder

believe
"

reversion

and

to

The

demon

literature, from
nimble

the

titanic

topheles, passing
in

short

later fiction.

in
as

We

Dante,
human

as

of

has

seen

superman,

him
as

as

forms

an

to

to

and

loathly,

intellectual

ton's
Mil-

Mephis-

impressive

our

in

legend, the

mocking

not.

are

novel, in poetry,

being appealing
130

an

the

supernatural

of folk-lore

been

to

ists
modern-

devils

allegoric, symbolic,
has

demon

turned

many

monkish

save

seems

various

Goethe's

and

epic, the

have

in

nature-devil

He

the

drama,

story.

demon
and

the

into

fiend

that,

mind

and

himself

scarlet

epic, majestic Satan,


figuresin

human

are

mind.

familiar

but

in

daemonic

his

less in the

and

disported

and

imp

ghost

of

added

old

least

probably

state

modern

the

human

all, ghosts
has

the

The
to

will

devil, perhaps because

the

in the

more

after

form.

fondness

as

have

fact, they
at

late, with

type,

to

we

In

htunanities

and

Now

Satan

merely
of

inverted

romances,

our

Cotton

said

to be

scarce.

are

in

Burbanked

removed

new

need

easily recognizable.

vanished

would

devils

extinct

so

characteristics

'

plenty,'

English fiction.

solution, identified

in

has

is

Allies

are

saying

but

become

to

His

devils

present-day

ghosts in abundance
bid

but

few

are

to fit

and

Devil

satiric
ter
charac-

and

the

brutish

satirist,

sympathy.

He

The

has

Devil

gradually lost

He

is not

he

in the

heretofore, and
is

so

In this

with
he

set

forth

the

chapter

his

undoubtedly

Ahriman

of

the

other

of

Zoroastrian

invokes

him

Thou!

Atild

has

The

in

to,

answers

to

Persia

in

the

the

classical

Darkness,

to

is

aliases,as

Pluto

Address

say

and

about

various

of

he

originated, yet

title suit

and

De'il

by

Burns

Satan,

himself

Nick

"

Cloutie!"

or

in fiction

thee,

diverse

under

Black, and
he

is

so

forth, but whatever

known

in

astonishing adaptability made

Lucio,

the

land

every

names,

Prince

Lucifer, Satan, Mephistopheles,

Man

hard

first families

our

Prince

whatever

Hornie,

manifested

Demon,

as

be

devil

system,

his

reference

thus:

"Oh,

He

In

with

later division

under

appeared

titles.

in

the

one

mythology, Satan, Beelzebub,


many

as

close

requires

discussed

theologically in

has

He

b.c.

900

year

born

to

it

It would

where

belongs

been

will be

and

figure

presence.

home.

own

which

to

his personality

appear

that

earth, while

when

certainty
have

devil

on

in

his

prove

does

human.

extent

impressive

so

ambiguously

seen

said to

not

he

his appearances

will be

past, is

131

become

the

to

now

when

to

Allies

epic qualities and

times

at

literary analysis
to

His

present in literature

known

was

his

and

and

has

at

home

in

and

his

himself

he

name

with
every

literature.
devil

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in

appearance
him

his

as

has

later

ancient

by supernatural
by

so

costume,

cloven

hoofs

whom

anyone

of
in

was

could

it is hard

early stories

he

lightning

and

and

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red, sometimes
He

form

that

sulphur.

diaboUc.
and

In

thunder

sometimes

indubitably

literature
self.

strong smell

his

changed

dressed

horns,

wore

identify

to

heralded

was

accompanied
in

character

black, but

in
a

forked

for

devil.

Now

always

tail, and

generally unprepossessing

know

of

manner

creature

his

r61e is

The

132

not

typical and

so

evening

aii

tell the

been

devil

from

mind

of

interesting

been

engrafted

very

slowly and

soul

for

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the

by degrees.

be,

diabolic

element

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for

me

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in

devil
of

enemy

brings instant
Yet

the

dullness, less clever

the

closely related

to

nature.

surplus

or

his

wrath

of his

stories

anything

plain that

and

springs

he

sometimes

of

the

one

of

nature

Hornie.

the

might

be

to

clinch

him

the

wont

devil

have

hoof

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Bit

Mountain

In

general,
to

the

of

biting
in
any

off his

down
hard

so

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drinking

with

very

come

cloven

annoyance

landscape,

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cursed

of

as

work

to

pique

fond

is

English folk-lore,

stamp

them

attributed

devil

might

was

mention

"The

he

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Devil's

instances.

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print

leaving

as

lies

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phase of literature,

shows

prankish

rich

legendry

folk-lore

on.

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him.

least

by disturbing the

vexed

showed

mountain.

in any

He

imprinted permanently.
pure

than

rustic

branches,

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energy

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the

from

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tempter.

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"

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us.

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out

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to

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"

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chance

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here

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legends

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us.

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of

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religious dragon.

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has

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story.

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how

note

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the

appears

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of

on

study.

take

hero

wears

parson's robe,

it is sometimes

conceived

if need

years,

field for

in

to

energetic

an

and

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declarative.

so

gown,

mythologic

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was

not

longer

no

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ease,

the

and

combination

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medigeval

and

scholar's

with

deodorized

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his

suit,

hunting coat,
to

Devil

be

out

of

sulphur,

and

section

out

Ireland

being

peculiarity of

activities

of

Auld

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devil

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word

of mouth

must

worm

always

was

not

his way

that

one

Luther

querie, the
in

display
in

hurled

the

monkish

racial

tradition

folk-lore

of

is in the

and

poems

and

naturalism,
and

more,

literature

the

Satanic

modern
has

Dante

doubtless

The
had

and

honest

sympathies,

our

writer,
"

say

showing

weakened
to

he

him

of

may

so

reflecting the
certain

intellectual

kinship
power.

super-

reflected

it

Milton,
shadows

interest

in

here.

shows

his

own

devil to repent

Browning,

Mrs.
,

in Lucifer

pitying
to

heart

makes

in

appeal

some

Milton's
She

kindly
impulses

misdirected

yet.

shows

have

Gothic

epic

of

it is

that

long

revival

ofttimes

do

and

Dante,

cast

it

find

we

the

has

is still hope for the

of Exile, likewise

her Drama

with

that

time

have

to the De'il

by suggesting that there

trusting

that

its effect

though

devil

the

by

recent

comic
But

that

While

touched

Goethe

in his Address

Burns
heart

fiction.

stories

characters

and

Marlowe,

Calderon,

and

his maker.

of the

in

pranks,

devil-production,

since

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souls, in rustic

seriousness

fiction.

lightly

merely

creator.

waggish

and

concepts

the

is to

Man

is not

for

mirrors

of

modern

but

was

romance

who

in wait

dramas

dramatic

greatly influenced

grotes-

In his appearance

one

with

the
devil

he

humor

well, reflecting his

personal aspects

epic

these

to

image,

adversary

an

The

largely anthropomorphic.

popular beliefs,he

great

more

and

later.

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elements

over

works

then

besides

plays, showing
sardonic

own

as

Since

him

upon

by

folk-lore, but

general.

that

rollicking buffoon

miracle

is

in his

in

miracle

of

devil

devil

but

personal

the

rustic

or

of

sort

round

his cloister wall.

against

in

133

handed

being

emptied

important

more

the

creates

with

legend

been

Allies

pushing, forward

literature

beginnings

literature

the

into

frequently

seen

been

content

have

His

and

in monkish

ink-pots

many

is

has

he

so

person,

Devil

of

Satan

the

yet

Gabriel

The

134

Devil

Allies

His

and

Such
Which

standest,

rounds

Thou
A

thou

as

shalt

the
be

down

And

ideas

of

in

shows

He

is the

devil

Fisherman

he

soul to the
in

young

pale, but

his

and

weary

the

unthoughtedly
the

of

utters

time, the demon


rides

and
with

the

devil.

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has

his

figure,and

the

bored

afternoon
devils

Grey

in another
is

Scott
'

tea.

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patience

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'

manner

fisherman

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the

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face,

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Damozel
of

for

ness
silver har-

proud, disdainful

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of his stories, and

at

man

mocking

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of Dorian

of diabolism.

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jennet with
the

seemed

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baffles

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strangely

flower.
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who
sell his

to

was

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unlike

weariness

blasS

sad

his

wishes

in

The

darkness

face

red

that

Wilde

suit of black

toying

still with

away,

in

proud

prayer

mounts

of

that

saddle."

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kings

symbolic story.

his

proud

"I've

like

prince

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his

figure, whose

says,

how

in

us

leaning back

pommel

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dressed

like

Byron

as

face."

when

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man

lips were

terrible

fisherman

one"

an

thoughts engraved

to

fashion.

was

is

sarcasm

"

devil is

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such

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is, like Caliban's

of Judgment

his immortal

picfUres
his

good."

from

knows!"

and
to

appears

with

diabolical

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enough

distances

on

"

despair

mark

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wrath

wrath

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gloom,
to

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light

drear

all souls,

to

"altogether

and

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with

Vision

himself

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work

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out

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melancholy

measure

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pale

rebel's

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monumental,

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sin,

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puts

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spiritsof
by

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hideous

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are

disdained

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those

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earth

of

us

trust

and

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sage

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of

Good,

to

us

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will carry

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you

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on

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your
miles

to

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to those

the

of

Source

of

safety

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only

not

but

thy

of

Evil.

let each

give

fealty, and

we

where

you

may

his ministers.

and

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accept

mayest

invocations

death;

of

homage

do

true

are

in token

place

fire,

vengeful only

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the

my

persecuting.

is called
eve

sister

Thou

man.

wisely worships

which

seven

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to

generous,

heard

and

offer

and

become

the

brides

of

spirits of evil.
devil

speaks

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good

in

meets

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obvious

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says

farther,
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to

word

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Gauntlet.

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himself.

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stranger who

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woods

saying,

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that

and

midst

elementary

Omnipotence,

affronted.

have

Zohauk

to

maidens

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his

but

from

defiance

bid

when

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hair

of

out

the

eldest

world.

it is called

kind

we

sisters

your

of

nature

that
father

subterranean
created

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the

to

cruel, unrelenting, and

by

us;

the

brought,

is rent

earth

two

himself.

are

immortals.

says

feed

of

beauty

of the

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to

part

the

command

insulted, cruel only

and

cruel

the

who,

when

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leader

because

as

are

of

king

of

of

league with
become

to

The

appear.

brethren

legend

manifestations

Cothreb,

am

the

had

appeals

of supernatural

135

Saracen,

sisters of wonderful

seven

men

Allies

daily sacrifice of blood

that

loveliness

young

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of the

formed

serpents

day

and

mouth

evil who

which

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Devil

receipt

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go

to

in

the

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to

him,

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upon

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sympathizes

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freends."

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Tale,^

with

help him,
that,

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world,,

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am

the

tells his

gates of heU, and


which

the

hos-

The

136

pitable stranger
Scot

canny
wins

gloze

to

shown

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sins

marked

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anxious

sympathy

agitated

mind

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as

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and

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the

fools rush

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"able

to

do

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notch

rather
made

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How

by Marie

Corelli

and

the

devil

has

as

appears

"gigantic

human

Satan

he

or

as

to

the

from
turn

passes

lips."

of evil

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from

all

in

spiritto

again

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her

to

tion
salva-

own

is

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man.

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resists

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fallen !

seem

be

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to

Mephisto

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of

reading

as

in

daemonic

fiend

Milton,

lures

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him.

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eyes,

virtue, yet
the

In

away
to

see

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bears

comes

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at

the

presence,

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from

good, spuming

with

human

his

him

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some,
hand-

normal

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rabbi

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with

spirit in

Darkness,

seems

by, all the latent


He

away

him.

progress

must

well

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about

surface.

God,

his

red-haired

being in this realistic Ghetto


sense

soul

brow, cold, keen, steely

clean-shaven

nameless

for every

Walk

Maketrig,

marble

of

hasty

as

that

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weakness

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characterization

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Goethe,

forward.

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lone-

very

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circles

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pictures him

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work

to

heaven

indignity!

life's final
shows

of

well

damned.

London

they yield

rhetoric

that

who

martyr

when

grieved

much

Corelli's

wealthy, yet

for the

save

in

than

hero

maligned

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to

nearer

wiles, though

his

Miss

perfervid

would

in crowds

could

get

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is

theory, the devil is attempting


and

fiend.

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is

sentimental

expends

in advance

they

This

him.

she

and

persons

that

tendency

where

prince, handsome,

warns

is the

Corelli's

in Marie

mortals

beguilements.
who

he

is

devil, and

humanize

to

the

over

regretfullytempts
to

and

of Satan,

Satan

the

outwits

unscathed.

degree

Sorrows

The

place mentioned.

to the

document,

earth

to

Allies

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aspect of ;-ecent devil-fiction

over

to

him

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back

marked

and

conducts

obtains

his way

One

Devil

the

wife,
end

tempter

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whom

he

be

recognizes
in the

anguish

that

his

Here
with

remind
well

of

us

death,

heart

vassal, the

old

War

Elsa

Parker

but

presumably

from

The

Letters

with

said

be

to

Worship,

up

where

the

them

soul.

the

skin

as

his

over

the

minister.

by

written

Man,

correspondent

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us

human

souls

they seek

and

body

lost

it,

Stevenson's

Satanic

dignity, yet
Blackwood's

Algernon

in

gigantism

to

date.

to

mournful,

with

him

power

by

in

torture

to

in

hell, shows

in

devil-worship, into which


damn

dictated

Man

Cunning,

to

even

Dead

Living

black
weird

and

causes

how

terrifies

somewhere

superhuman

Secret

and

from

appears

in

man

exercises

grim realism

devil

with

the

servant,

And

Majesty

in

The

extends

shade

to

is in contrast

nature

and

heart

him

mournful

seems

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human

shows

lightly, his diabolic

so

dark

he

Janet, for

that

jesting that

human
The

lago.

the

to

as

Thrawn

to

he

cold, sardonic

of the

knowledge

is

Stanley J. Weyman's

in

life and

137

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turn

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believed

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witches

times
into

men

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still believe

persons

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to

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in Peele's

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power

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pact

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character.
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tigers,monkeys,
women

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witch

pany.
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devil, they have

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notably

spirit of Samuel

in the

gets her

of

sorcerer

witchcraft.

figure in the

has

made

and

origin in the East, the cuneiform

showing

demon

figures in literature, and

supernatural

145

diabolics is illtiminating

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in his power,

upon

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us

persons

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comparative

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because,

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alchemist

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the

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romance

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feminine

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fiction,where

and

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magician,

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Merlin,

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profession has suffered

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which

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cases,

wizard,

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sorcerer,

bacteriologist and
other

wonders.

frequent enough

folk-tales,have

become

The

146
less

of

later

fiction.

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supernatural

amulet, which, put

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as

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part.

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supernatural investigators

Wells's

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stories

efficacy

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magic

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transformation

armor,

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man

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man,

of

147

their

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story

mortal

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shows

magician

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and

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largely

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stories

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of

poetic type

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have

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poetry,

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the
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of literature, in Eliza-

romance,

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adaptations

modern

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of

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influence

of witchcraft

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romantic,

melodramatic,

satiric, showing

English
the

forms

of past literature

additions.

to

change his personality with

story, and

ghost; the

hoax

to

various

in Gothic

great creations

literature.

the

and

the

tragic-,comic, and

and

had

his

the witch.

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drama,

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the

previous chapter.

conditions

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of himself

parallel to

in the

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became

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when

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and

shape

witchery,
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on

brought

haps
perour

out

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148
in such
and

poems

Devil

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suggestiveness

symbol

hideous

aspects

enchantress

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Dame

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of

as

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is

falsely accused

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is

of her

traffic in

Host

persecuted,

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the

own.

Brown

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Comus, Robert

of Fife

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type

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peg

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defiance

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human

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witchcraft. The

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with

power

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Gothic

Johnston

stories

is rescued

second.

fifty-ninth

real

149

merely

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of

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in

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Turgeniev's
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terrorizing his
to

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is

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to

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England

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addition

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of

unaccountably

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which

by

the

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in

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governess

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vital

power

strength, the
describes

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us

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ideas, the

he

curious, oily brightness of his steady eyes.

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stories

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as

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countries, especially those

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Life

Supernatural
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Angels. Stephens's novel

contains

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of

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novel

of Anatole

Stephens's angelic

daughter

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interest,

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human

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to

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stories

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pre-

preliminary

corpse

heaven

of

story

depicts

coin

taken

angels

short

which

over

has

earthly

up

and

Life

Supernatural

220

that
earth

wonderful

Life

Supernatural
visitor

is

alien.

Stephens's archangel

after

their

of

charming
whose

absurdity

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France

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better

illustrates

life

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are

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in

his novel

others.

is

The
Heaven

Byron's

satiric

Psychical

vitriolic

death, sneering

at

entitled

Research

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it

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with

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at

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One,

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immortality

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peculiar

of

volume

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poetry,

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these

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deliver

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psychology.

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heart.

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woman's

of the

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Jim,
Sardonic

satiric

pictures of

GlitteringGate,
two

burglars,
laughter

crack

sounds

the
one-

the
while

Life

Supernatural

222

they

are

engaged

in

what

heaven

wondering
mother

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don't

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sing,
they

if

to the

and

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will be

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nothing

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and

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find

and

space,

ears.

will

to.

of heaven

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cross.

them

who

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at them

against her,

like

just

smile

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enter

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sounds

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mother

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future
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than

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time

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with

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types

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stories

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appear

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treatment

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instance

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hell

or

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Yet

where

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that

deeply
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be

heaven,

or

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this

life

the

merely

citizens
existence

doubtful

on

than
of
of

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to

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as

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the

men

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characterization

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them.

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of

motif

the

Life.

search

my

English

in

either

as

223

from

distinct

as

men

Life

men

symbolic

in

CHAPTER

The

Supernatural

folk-tale

THE

is

of

element

Yet

story.

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fiction

and
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The
The

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societies

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wonder.
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demi-gods,

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literary form

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the

Many

the

fictions

folk-lore

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the

224

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the

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stories

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of folk-literature.

down

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day

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preserve

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literature,constantly recurring in poetry,

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in

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saints, and

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227

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248
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Folk-Tales

in

Supernatural

dim

of

the

in

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250

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Folk-Tales

in

Supernatural

in

the

CHAPTER

VII

Science

Supernatural

THE

application of

or

of

of

the

Ghostly

in

Darwin,
much

of

was

so

nineteenth

thought

literature

Almost
to

and

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in

advance

plot material,
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wholly

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given place

botanist, the marvels

of

to

each

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devil
the

251

Zofloya

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"

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of research

elements
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astrologer

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stars.

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with

sought

science

while

fiction

Frankenstein

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considered

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chemistry, and
was

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to

Gothic

was

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human

diabolic

man-monster

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that

extent,
The

effort

as

lines.

other

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did

comparatively

science

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work

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scant

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but

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co-laborers
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investigation in

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Huxley,

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science

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furnishes

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vault

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stories

ghostly

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it is from

plot material, and

unearthly

laboratory

in

Science

Supernatural

252

well

as

birthmark
theme
to

in method

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and
as

from
to
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his

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his

older
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material.

Science

Supernatural
and

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fact

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idea

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stories

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plausible by

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into

originalityof

of

fiction

Descent

they united
Pit

claim

making

Bottle,and
The

made

253

paw

give its

granted, becomes
Weird,

that

follow

or

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of
the

wishes'

rash

utterance

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Science

Supernatural

254

come

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or

scoffs

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to

less
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Supernatural
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This

the

and

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them,

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Supernatural

256
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of the

effects,

time,

supernatural

of what

in

still

type

of

are

nineteenth

than

science

supernaturalism,

of

the

with

earthly,

immediately

supernaturalism.

learned

effect

of

itself

its

are

exaggerated

almost

half

in

clear, cold

prospects

would

investigation

some

concrete

the

and

do

as

problems

applies

the

over

up

while

futurity

how

wild

enthusiasm,

sprang

its

is

into

shows

miracles

The

It

incursions

form

The

philanthropic

concerns

immortality

hell, and

or

with

supernaturalism

genre.

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spiritual.

been

souls.

with

the

are

times
some-

have

Machines

engines

damned

cunning,

human

daemonic.

some

scientific

than

more

sometimes

helpful,

in

Science

Supernatural

28o

been

very

the

supernatural,
fiction.

It

is

supernatural

CHAPTER

VIII

Conclusion

the

previous chapters I have

IN

continuance

and

give

to

There

has

the

to

been

present

literature.
interest
There

Of

in it

of

amount
stories

to

of the

are

or

beyond
hesitate
occultism
the

number
the

Katherine

to

The

and

hoax

this

at

has

war

of

been

revival

last two

life

for

reason

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much

to

in

this

of these

the

forces
I

dominion.

sudden

with

last

gorical
suggestive, alle-

are

it

the

the

Some

human

do

in the

astonishing

an

years,

particular time, but


had

the

and

poetry

frankly accept

and

our

absent.

of interest

appeared.

others

in

carefully studied

has

has

found

wholly

in

drama,

variety, others

while

the

Beowulf

from

periods when

magazines.

the

mortal

suggest

been

never

who

material

rising tide of
clear

seems

it.

I have

to

me

found

supernatural productions directly associated

struggle.
Fullerton

story of horror'; The


^

in

in

of literature,

not

was

have

definite

anyone

symbolic,
man's

ghostly

forms

history

our

yet it has

appearing

ghostly

in

the

of its manifestations.

variety

there

especially in

years,

with

the

publications

recent

when

present

fiction, evident

that

period

waned,

supernatural

few

no

show

to

supernatural

the

in other

as

of the

course,

the

is at

well

idea

some

of

persistence

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and

endeavored'

them

Among

Gerould's

Second

might

be

mentioned

extraordinary,

Coming, by Frederick

Eighty-Third.
281

elusive
Arnold

Conclusion

282

Kummer

and

battlefields

slaughter of

till

on

goes

the

that

by

Napoleon

the

Arc

returning

descends

her

from
Real

Ghost

from

other

Stories,a volume

different

by

the

writers,

seen

by soldiers

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Bowmen,

last

volume

way

in

affords

which

in

Carl

Mons.
the

use

the

eyes

are

heroes

of

battle

in

'.Swept
The

and

Dead

past

recent

are

they

the

with

by
slain

resurrected

the

in the

May,

is

temporary
con-

Angels

at

Vida
for

dead.
to

1916, Texas

When

battlefields
that

is natural
visions

of

refusing
Various

life

shows

Sutton,
to

fight,

martial

give inspiration in

stories.

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the

into

drama.

toward

are

The

war.

it

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Are

instances

the

reality, it

peasants

that

Machen's

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for

up,

in

Come,

Kingdom

the

with

themselves

occupy

unaware

phantoms

the

striking play,^ showing

turned

ever-present

an

spirits of Russian

specters

'

the

death.

after
the

of

is

of stories

Arthur

with

war-supernaturalism

thoughts

human

has

of

death

and

Barker;

striking fictive

connection

Hauptmann

world

; and

built

are

of

Letters

Elsa

interesting glimpse

an

legends

legend

War

number
of

associated

crowd-supernaturalism

of

by

some

battlefield
of

victory

to

professed psychic

of

containing

collection

dren
chil-

spirit of Joan

world,

describing

the

on

of

girlof to-day, enabling

series

so

Guest, showing

things for her countrymen


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heard

people

my

forces

the

the

last,

at

Give

French

where

beside

heart

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French

young

Dead

communications

the

carnage

its specters

The

lead

to

upon

Living

his

sinned!

the Maid

do wonderful

to

have

the

stands

the

Kaiser

rioting people

softens

Germans;

crisis;Jeanne,

Christ

Kipling's ghost-story,' with

slain

in

"Lord,

vain, and

in

of the

roar

outside, and

says,

peace!";

the

with

streets

he

the

the

with

pleading

but

men,

Easter, when

dying Emperor,
in

Eve,

walks

Christ

Janes, where

Christmas

on

stop the

to

P.

Henry

Review.

Conclusion

But

whatever

ghostly,
for

the

the

be

fact

phantom

is

always

few

with

years

days

of

confreres.

even

in

sword

the

has

been

struggles

the

closet

drama

rise

for the
The

form

and

that
than

the

in the

us,

dozen

psychal
Hound

as

as

Poe

'

In

his Heaven.

some

his

that

Francis

"Nature,

manifests

particularly

with

supernatural,
different

periods,

general fondness

and

exists

everywhere.

predilection for
of the

old

with

satire

the

spirit of

sonnet,'
faith.

on

spiritualepoch
in

the

Thompson
poor

or

In

""

there

poems,

are

linck
Maeter-

supernatural.

are

canny,
un-

ballads, while

Brooke's

collected
the

we

likely to

period in English literature.

sardonic

with

is immensely

literary history

more

Rupert

feeling that
As

of Heaven,

Suggested by

in

said

While

venturous
ad-

Morgan's

in De

drama,

the

manner

in

dealing
the

is

fiction

poetry

in it at

strong

of Brooke's

powers.

'

the

pen.

than

it is

now"

ghostly is treated

as

volume

expressed
upon

the

in

Recent

solution

detachment

other

any

rather

it,as

upon

of

slashing

psychographic

than

playlet.

ghostly

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realism

so

there

is in

instances

recent

about

the

shows

skepticism

with

while

likewise

now

at

sometimes

critical

occult,

"fall of interest

poetry

other

are

continuity

supernatural

Recent

the

more

and

and

it is apparent

by

earlier

surpassed

never

fiction.

tures
adven-

the

and

they

Gothic

overlaid

clearly the

certain

which

single example.

weird

the

now

never

"

tendency,

shows

the

before, and

give

same

of

of

supematuralism

the

striking survival

displaced

popular

to

his

popularity

as

work,

and

now

day

manifestations.

hero

but

the

romanticism

While

swashbuckling

most

distinctly the

is

different

in

of

revival

this

this

it appears

heyday

crucial

in

his

romanticism,

regained

have

and

the

have

The

that

the

ago

for

reason

remains

us,

seemed

the

283

is

midst
says

step-dame,

perhaps
of

great
in

his

cannot

of the Proceedings of the Societyfor Psychical Research.

Conclusion

284
slake

which

thought

lead

Spiritualism

as

of

feature

of

length.

the

Of

in

ghostly
while

longer,

brief
in

preferred form
novel.

latter

vehicle

for

be

may

attained

playlet than
form

lengthy

whole

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through
be

to

'^

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that

much

novel

the

the

length

scarcely be

wotdd

mean

several

is

claiming
bars

in the

story, in" the

narrative, dramatic,

of

the

work

than

of Dr.

forms

and

mortal

with

William

for

Cleaver

more

its

as

the
of

power

found
novels.

to beUeve

one

limitations
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own.

appears

in the

of
no

in the

playlet, and

Even

the

entirely vanished,
Wilkinson

earthly,
un-

supernatural

leads
the

even

not

of

Stoker's

lyric poetry.
has

story

sometimes

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drama

as

ghostly

short

up

the supernatural, which

in

more

all

the

weakening

dealing

transcending

it

necessarilyincluded.

tiiis is

of

novel

for in the

made

of novels

number

occult
and

as

in

as

is

noticeably increased, which

literary type

the

unity in

matter

into

come

displacing

of

long drama,

or

outside

that

case,

has

novel

short

the

commend

to

effect

more

exaggeration, though

the

themes

in

for

supernatural

much

The

much

plot could

for

has

uncanny.

with

particularly the

favor, though without

to

the

Gothic

the

play has

the

years

stage

was

century

one-act

as

matter

the

drama

decidedly

was

Brevity

the

the

century,

the

no

expressed

held

epic

times

last few

forms.

the folk-tale

the

nineteenth

returning

shorter

and

eighteenth

recently

in the

be

to

seems

the

is

literature

periods, is in the

but

preference

more

But

vogue.

the

the

half, the

story, while

in

there

in

present.

ballad

form,

search,
re-

interest

arousing

supernatural

Elizabethan

as

During

at

psychical

or

all events,

of other

the

course,

of

at

modem

that

science

action

But

the

from

distinguished

or

reflex

literature

uncanny

One

folk-lore, or
the

of

lines

certain

in

writing of supernatural fiction,

subjects themselves.

lack

of

interest

the

to

or

have

may

the

The

drought!"

our

epic
as

attests, but

Conclusion
popular
The

does

taste

ghostly

is

brevity gives

chance

difficult in

play

in

The

dramas

of

Sharpe, Gordon

is

the

work

liness

of

than

playlet

for

marionettes

Lord

Dunsany

that

of any

idols, for instance, that


themselves
dramatics.
work

in

Algernon

Another
later

the

greater

ghostly

stories

number

and

drama

to

considerable

relied

for

The

revenge-ghost.
with

ghost,

one

of

use

no

however,
into

gathers

service
to

up

angels

adapted

and
other

and

save

"

the

and

for

the

on

and

Elizabethan
and

strong

was

The

fiction

has

of

employment
discoveries

utilized

botany,

biology

brought

supernaturalism

all the
are

puts theni

old themes

Gothic

now

made

fiction,

and

scientific

the

wolves
were-

but

modem

new

the

for

Jews, occasional

to these

Diabolic

supermortal

employed.

witch

personages

the

is in

Gothic

sporadic satanity,

laboratory

supernaturalism.

chemistry;

The

astrology

investigations of
with

"

the

astonishingly, the

types.

practically new

alchemy

varied

with

devils, angels, and

while

divinity.

In addition

the

materials

romance

all of these

up

freely.

date

of

or

showing

in connection

of

chiefly

and

in

significant

more

with

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lycanthropes,

and

noted

extent,

Gothic
two

or

be

introduced

its thrills

touch

new

power.

variety
had

are

jade

revenge

else, his prose

compared

as

early religiousplays

divinity

to

His

life and

doing

is

anyone

eerie

as

peculiar ghost-

terrible

to

Blackwood

well

as

show

linck's
Maeter-

dramatist.

mortals,

significantfact

the

TS

wake

effect.

more

present

psychic fiction than

poetic beauty

The

furnishes

presumptuous

on

weird

Dreiser

especially powerful, but

are

other

Gregory, William

Theodore

for

one-act

connection.

this

Synge, Yeats, Lady

possibilitiesof the

plays

rise of the

The

and

intensity of

and

significantin

Bottomley,

forms, where

shorter

compression

vehicles.

favor

epics nowadays.

to

run

in the

seen

for

longer

popular

short

the

often

more

force

really

not

285

appear

and

and

embued

psychological
in

recent

Conclusion

286

fiction.

The

countless

optics, dietetics,

and

while

shows

astronomy

dreamed

of.

early
and

The

to

while

come,

with

Mark

King

Arthur's

we

Twain's

realist like Mark


No

province

material
and

small

or

for the

Fifth

Dimensions

science

the

uses

into

has

brought
laws

own

time

that

as

visits

homespun

failed to furnish

in

Fourth

plot complications.

as

enchanted,

are

will to

at

the

even

bewitched, mirrors

its

reverses

into

supernatural is significant.

of science

are
are

it in

far past,

the

which

to

ghostly fiction,and

new

never

aberration

trips

Yankee

extent

corner

Microscopes
and

transported

The

Twain

kept

strange

return

us

Connecticut

Court.

astrologer

in late narration.

gives

be

may

to

plots,

for

on

place and

given

are

fiction

the

their

conduct

futuristic

levied

are

knew

acoustics,

sciences,

wonders

us

they

unaccountable

The

what-not

stars

but

romance,

and

arts

suit the

weird

demands.
Another
the

of

age

material

modern

There

is

realism
car

is

house

clicks
and

Hans
new

o'clock
for

in

accelerator
a

man

the

his

that
to

this
of

out

magic

and

away

with

extraordinary
dreams

and

between

that

midnight
Stockton's

R.
balloon

the

to

is

specimens

typewriter

Frank

trip

through

runs

Other

dark,

morning;

condenses

crowd

that

enchanted

the

Prescott

romanticism

negativing gravity; Poe's


makes

Pfaal

enabling

Bangs's
in

Harriet

living purposes.

psychograms

three

machine

for

legion.

are

tragic experiences.

with

itself

erects

is

by ghost-

run

reproduces

combining

connection

Kendrick

off

that

Lady,

idea

that

enough

John

in

long-dead voice,

an

In

are

This

spook

reliving previous

is

surely!

substantial
are

the

Ford

phantom

mechanical

Mad

its occupants,

engines

even

the

mechanistic.

automobile

The

tube

speaking

with
A

of

haunted

the

Spofford's story.
its

and

machinery,

Examples

power.

is the

in

moon;

which

Wells's

intensifies vital energy,

the forces of

week

into

an

hour

287

Conclusion
of
the

inventor

will, to

at

project himself

to

spend

in Hawthorne's

delicate
that

it life and

This
fiction
and

imbibing

toy

etherealized

well

as

the

as

ery
machin-

of

voluntary

tion.
mo-

in modem

is manifest

wreck

that

constructions

diabolic

it, the

spiritual essence

power

machinery

past

butterfly

conceived

beautiful

and

beauty

the

or

The

era.

any

magnetism,

futtire

of
spiritualization

the

of the

artist

poor

gives

in

story shows

the

as

week-end

the

into

permits

that

machine

his time

likewise

as

emergency,

ruin.

Inanimate
as

Poe's

as

the

the

objects have

ship that is said in certain


told

trees

picture.

bloodstained

are

painting

told

overhears

in

the

picture relates
and

photographed
haimted

and

the

to

children.

everywhere

well

ghosts
in

as

seen,

found

In Poe's

; and

the
that

wife, the

his

and
who

man

leaving him.
the

has

the wife.

to

vicious

later

painting

There

is the

living

the

to

that
in
no

attention

coming

they

should

one

is haunted
ones

Metzengerstein.

dead

the

ghostly

to

front

demand
fiction.

individualized
In

to

paid

the

of

the

particularly in Ainerica,

supernatural

man

little

distinguished from

as

is the
are

only twice.

specters of
'

and

curiously related

nowadays,

natural

groups

novels

literature

Youngsters

it is but
as

is

of the

aspect

occult

earlier

hands

whose

long dead.

Another

stage

that

tapestry'

to

lines

Likely Story,

husband

sent

copy

her

the

the

murder

artist

an

story

and

commits

between

quarrel

its face

on

Morgan's

De

in

grow

portraits,as

show,

Dorian

when
of

bears

not

wrongly suspecting

woman

The

does

that

haunted

that

Grey

in size,

increase

to

Blackwood

various

are

living face

the

sin

There

in later fiction

power

seas

by Algernon

of

Dorian

picture of
of

strange

to

In

the

children, and
of

James

on

his

because

be

children

Hogg's
him,

heard
Gothic

death-bed
of

so

short

by
but

the

they

288

Conclusion
nameless

are

bigenses

and

indistinguishable.

relentless

lonely forest,

the

sees

death, little children


and

But

women.

character, but

here

babes

he

has

figures, hence

group

as

to
men

givienseparable-

not

are

done

breast, as well

at the

again they

merely

passing through

of those

phantoms

and

are

while

p^secutor,

The' At-

Matwin's

In

do

not

count.

There

is

ghost-child mentioned

dale Romance,
children's
The

but

ghosts

it is not

among

the

human

and

little

lovable.
of

In

several

killed, natural

has

crucified

insanity by
specter of
for the

child

little

because
him

help

the

story of

the

unquiet ghost

his

house.

the

little

"

He's

boy
took

poignantly
and

'

Swept

'

In

Thi

'

In

who

has

child

leading

Petavel

into

to

is driven

do

housework
reminds

of,who

ing
havback

the

relates

wont

to

man

who

the

dead,

for

pray

haunts

mother

sees

and

says,

safety. Perhaps

that's

by
and

peace

the

neglect, comes

been

to

shows

tells

wicked

is

who

hand,

him."

pathetic.

story
The

of

little

little

chap

ghost-boy

comes

back

Garnished.

Monstrance,

Pair

and

Algernon Blackwood

Petavel,' a

Middletbn's

Richard

soldier

hands, who

father's

butes,
attri-

pride in his first

door

night

at

have

childish

German

Middleton

the

him

the

us

Germans

his

slender

two

as

sheep.

of

with

returns

little child

After

leading
God

why

shows

appealing

church

of his drunken
the

very

spirit. Quiller-Couch

girlthat

tend

child-creations,

the

tells of

against the

baby

the

are

whom

boy

Machen*

They

story,' he

with

that

individualized.

Kipling's

his

war

shfepherd boy Richard

died
to

small

living,visible only

of the

us

of

youngsters

Arthur

trousers.

in

children

especially the

and

Blithe-

fiction

recent

more

ones

wonderful

most

phantoms

until

personated

enter

exquisitely shy

in Hawthorne's

of Hands.

another

story of the

war.
*

The

Passing of Edward.

is
to

Conclusion
play

with

his

by

his

joyous

imitations

MacMillan
"out

because

of

have

Frances
little

her

save

to

Burnett

and

Ellen

story of confused

them.

shows

unborn

us

they

that
enter
so

mother

man

him

to

that

spiritsof

the

dream-drama,^
wait

child-souls

life.

In these

there

is

stories

always

In

Clairvoyance.
I

A
.

woman
assume

real that

wish

play

to

Algernon

The

women.

wood'
Black-

reaching

the

hood,
potentialitiesof motherthere

the

be

the

his

sees

babes.
and

were

to

the

which

room

never

may

borti. children

angel

Land
to

pathos,

'

The

sad

Blue

in

of the

with

the

beauty

Bird.

ghosts
be

are

linck's
Maeter-

Future,
them

summon

associatingchildren

dead

own

These

appealing.
'

Bacon,

with
spirits,

baby

the

Bailey Aldrich's

son.

where, in the

tender

his

into

so

who

of Thomas

among
never

the

cause

they

become

children

sleeping

for

of

lisping voices, spiritsof

with

yet

till

had

They

of

and

sacred

seems

of little children
like the

to

enter

were

Mehitabel's

childless

haunt

return

us

multitude

that

back

to

with

play

to

comes

never

other

reminds

wraith

revenge-ghost

never

she

by

pattering steps,

arms,

that

for her.

child. Miss

imagined

Elsbeth

Children, by Josephine Daskam

being

This

young."

so

describes.

Glasgow

finally seen

with

know,

the

us,

are

by her father

back

terrible

the

children

personality and
are

to
ago

comes

that

Brown

shows

his

Mary

you

paranoia and supernaturalism

the

over

they

Wee

are

by her stepfather,who

late stories,as in The

the

who

torture,

spirits of children

grieves

earlier,being

Hodgson

from

death, whom

bed

ghosts,

girl pitifullyslain centuries

slain

The

to

go

older

ghosts

living playmate;
child

chug-chug.

the

child

recent

very

than

night

at

they

whom

automobile's

an

and

bracken,

speaks of the spiritsof little children

earlier

Two

of

the

through

dancing

known

his presence

grieving sister,making

feet

gay

289

to

ghostly
that

is

Conclusion

290

spectral insect

The

before,

sufferings in

shows
is

makes

ghostly insects, a death's

head

justice,while

to

spectral insect

example,

Marsh's

of

priestessof
as

scarab

human

has

mesmeric,

the

is

dog

more

than

so

seems

horse.
very

dog

on

shows

much
earth

complicating

by

terror

his

cavortiv-e

kills the

over

lost soul.
be

one

Baskervilles

Kerfol by
The

Ghost

terrible

of

earth
young

of the
is
Edith
Moth.

in

Fisk

that

Judgment

Conan

'

of

the

In A nother

Day

drama

his

dog

the

each

baby

that

is

thought
of the

legendary

power.

of five

Little Heath

Evil

being

Hound

ghosts

dog,

Phillpotts

pursue

Day,

Ambrose

Eden

Doyle's

terrifying canine
shows

in

by

revenge-ghost,
^

the

ghost-

archangelic.
while

dog

us

Decoration

girl'slittle unbaptized

Wharton

has

accompanied

master,

till the

she

Howe

spectral dogs

number.
a

march

Isabel

of his

pack

the

to

shows

Ward

while

heaven,

apparently

not

the

possibly

save

any

Phelps

Raphael

one

murderer

represents

in

master.

canine,

evokes

than

back

coming

fiction,

occult

of

subject

Stuart

Archangel

the

Bierce

human

home

at

beside

parade

'

and

mortals

over

animal, perhaps because

other

any

Elizabeth

Mrs.

dog

to

lively

This

beetle.

power

the

frequently

nearly

more

One

life alternately

plot.

The

as

shape-shiftingfurnishes

its sensational
to

and

magic

ling
curd-

whereby

mysterious, horrid

her

being

story'

most

superstitions of Egypt,

Isis continues

The

Beetle, a modernized

novel. The

ancient

the

in

Swanson

of fate.

brings

entomological supematur-

of the

however,

alism, is Richard
version

Frederick

that

moth

butterfly that

minister

of

Chambers

W.

gnat

tell its murderer

to

hades.

of disaster, and

presager

murderer

back

cases

of

ghost

Robert

insect

the

several

us

of the

Vergil's Culex, the story

as

occasional

been

have

thoughtlessly coming

killed
its

there

fiction, though

recent

in

innovation

is another

animal

or

Hound.

dogs,

Conclusion
each

carefully indiAridualized,
brindled

large white

pointer with

grayhound.
killed

by

These

her

on

of the

They

the

day

with

showing
of

great

heaven,

strange

had

the
for

wife

in

that

have

been

it without

laying

versary
anni-

the

on

year

slew

desperation

silence

of

habit

and

follow
is

Kipling's dog Harvey

what

he

I have

represents
Gate

the

is

never

recent

dogs just outside

of

black

cheerful

once

gaze.

At

mongrel,
small

and

undoglike

concourse

unwilling

he

the

most

animals

cared

which

on

of

and

ear,

appear

"

determine.

to

"

beast, but

supernatural
able

pillow

preserve

beholder

been

specters

pet his wife

every

word

him.

brown

one

sleeve-dog,

white

long-haired

jealous husband

strangling
a

bulldog,

Chinese

"

rough

291

story,

portals

the

to

enter

till their

in

Poe's

Metzengerstein

masters

to

come

join them.
The

diabolic
of

composite
and
to

the

victim

and

carries

studies

beings

shows

in

whose

ghosts

That

adds

fiction

addition

only
of

are

the

to the

weird

ghosts for ghosts'


element
to

teach

some

but

uncanny

stories

sake

is of
truth

humorous,

or

and

"

tiger, while
Burns

stories

in

of human

suited

introduced

types

told

with

are

in

the

to

so

where

importance,
some

satiric methods

fallacy.
abound

later

the

stressed.

direct aim

tales

are

secondary
ridicule

death.

death!

to

new

there

and

Miss

animals

materials

new

through

bears, bulls, hogs, and

as

terror

new

relates

as

appear

flies

white

spooks, and

deceased,
a

that

in Wen-

insanity

of

ghost

object,

Blackwood

to

Shropshire folk-tales

of the

Not

the

curious

sufficientlyterrifying

animal

away

elephant

personality
forth.

men

is

inanimate

Algernon

supernatural

assorted

are

all events

at

pursued.
a

Rideout

Henry
there

it

created

air

the

haunted

metempsychosis,

straight ghost, but

digo has

her

horse

and
the

art

"

natural
super-

being
The

In

used
bolistic,
sym-

in modern

Conclusion

292

of

that

of

with

them

earlier

in

symbolism
In
of

change

instant
their

old

have

the

world

over

the

who

is told

that

he

the

it

back

who

plays for

him,

have

clung the

golden

that

he

The

Book

gone

the

dust-heap
a

tear

He
make
The

in

to

peculiarly
made

antique mythology
distinctive

the

note

allegory.

are

story of the

who

goes

with
the

meant

that

and

again

whereof

He

monkeys

after

man

Wilde

the

The

on,

is

trails

to

some

is making

Serpent,

questions,

Maker

make

to

learn

are

through

all
the

complete, He

have,

that

the
ask

so

lasts.

Creator

look

trying

harp

music

while

means

the

stories

artists,and

with

stories of Oscar

while

Serpent

stuff for

of

comes

happiest hours,

symbolic

Grasshopper

harper

strings

dust-heaps,

years

mournful

the

hoar

his

fables.

The
as

of

bygone

past,

golden second,

one

the

to

tells

the

all

touch

king

When

palace,

seconds

fantastic

of
not

no

lo!

over

comments.

experiments
man,

and

are

attained

moral

Dunsany

poetry.

his

Serpent

prose,

Turtle, and
offer

of

unearthly

modern

into

keeper

of

to

them

lives

experiments
and

of

back,

pathos

has

the

Gothic

power

him

interesting

of Lord

weird

king

in

present

of

the

save

the

they have

have

cannot

delicate

poems

the

seeking his lost yesterday, his dear

by

of

to

Shakaspeare,

one

stories

instance, the

For

Hawthorne

poetic fiction, spiritual

it is

force

Yet

in

no

of

cases

stories

real.

own.

much

mythological
the

and

and

in

certain

plays and

symbolic

for

Mystic

art.

appears

writing.

has

manifest

achievements,

in

stories.

as

machinery

suggestion,

ghostUness, though

really modern

The

of

deUcacy

The

effect,

the

continued

crude

the

to

double

behind

purposes

art, have

contrast

horrors.

to

subtler

the

have

impressiveness, and,

supernatural

consummate

form

hinted

done

legends, spiritualallegoriessuch

Moralized
wrote

well

when

primary

addition,

and

and

fiction

occult

the

drops

mothers.
how

best

makes

of them,

to

woman.
a

beauty

Conclusion
like

that

of

jeweled words,
that

prose

and

The

his

Nightingale

The
of

of

heart's

own

that
A

days

may

be

the

words

poet's

the

stained

and

song

with

forms

the

Andreyev's

story.

instead

of

holy

silence

that

ghostly

sounds

basis

soul

the barriers
love

is almost

loved
But

'

love.

that

would

here

there

be,

and

of

miracle,

of

Something
his

by

is

father

daughter's
in

expressed
and

cries

remorse

out,

terrible

more

dreadful

more

revealing
death,

is horror

is

grave

Unseen,

grave,

more,

the

the

hope

waiting
once

the

dream-poem

denies

in the

voice

When

from

issues

of the

within

body

for this

unbearable.

father's

the

as

The

Wedmore.
to

to

stories

such

tiptoe for

on

of expectancy

of

in

seen

return

the

element

supernatural

the

Frederick

may

father's

that

hear

to

soul

of

is

by

the

sense

theme,

same

grave

death

in

beauty

the

transcending

the

passion

own

unearthly, the

sense

mortal,

shows

sorrow

expresses
with

after

love

idyllic

moonlight

gives the

It

prose.
a

by

suggestion of the

belief that

ancient

with

Rose, where

of Provence,

Dream

in

music

full of

of his

the

that

which

few

and

think

one

style,

ornate

of poetry,

verge

its

blood."

delicate

suspense

the

on

light, makes

"builded

was

and

Wilde's

mystic figures.

trembles

color

in

its

missal, with

illuminated

antique

some

293

in its

the
than

supermortal

suggestion.
purely

The
a

The

old

Peele's

Ghost

thing.

new

devils, and
but

not

at

early drama

in

humorous

or

Ghost

humorists.

The

'

free
Silence.

and

religious dramas
of

easy

fiction

Ship,
work
manner

of

had

Frank

John

was

moderns

comic
ous,
humor-

nothing

of Richard

Stockton's

Kendrick

of the

be

to

rollickingfun
R.

essentially
used

There

sense.

like the
or

is

Jack is supposed

all in the modern

Middleton's

the

supernaturalism

Bangs
toward

spectral
illustrates

ghosts,

Conclusion

294
them

picturing
of

them

all

their

of the

wraith

for which

maiden

she

dignity.

ancient

punished by having

is

as

is

original revenge-ghost, with

an

of h's, who

haunts
her

discharged
their

ghost club,

and

their

toward

confreres

satirical

literature

of

been

him

for

while

him,

being

is too

Heaven

is

Deity

have
the

inversion

baron
in

spooks

mortals,

on

flippancy

modern

now

escape

the

respect
held

personage
of

light

in
No

ragging.
of

arrows

fun.

angels,saints, and

considerable

has

satirized,
which

Satiric

fiction

recent
scant

tenderfoot, the

the

treatment

is

even

in

as

campaign

to

done

is

puncture

of

of

Gilmore's

Haynes

for woman's

employed

conceits

extent

aspects

document
is

anecdotal

what

to

Various

Inez

and

Irishman,

body

gone.

supernaturalism

truths,
well

supernatural, showing

are

many

have

we

devil

subjects for jesting,conventionalized

is

the

The

cases.

in for his share

to

There

Angel Island,

when

sporadic

that

so

comes

become

life

suffrage.

in

save

Late

new.

daring familiarity

ghost, formerly

sacred

of

is also

subject for laughter, but

the

levity of

mortal

before,

mother-in-law,

literature

and

the

with

everything,

at

satiricallyexploited,and

forth.

home

Bangletop

convivial

supernaturalism

still more,

great respect,

the

of

play pranks

examples of

of

ancient

an

ridicules

so

who

astrals
are

use

laughs

undreamed

with

his

ancestral

medieval

His

wages.

pique,

supematurals.

The

has

without

the

villainous

the

us

fit of

haunt

to

because

estate

an

in

spectral cook

His

shower-bath.

house

shows

He

herself

drowned

who

divesting

and

situations

in unconventional

of

to

drive

all kinds,

effective,for laughter is

clever

weapon.

The
earlier

advance

of

is nowhere

effectiveness
of

the

later

seen

with

supernatural fiction

more

which

distinctly than
it manages

emotion, its skill in selectingand

the

in

over

the

the
creased
in-

mechanics

elaborating the details

Conclusion

by

which

day

artist

tones

of

and

of the

uncanny

of
writer

unearthly.
for

as

that

Quincey

The

Gothic

has

weather
This

possesses

power

it is

than

it used

produces

story
the

purges

soul

foreboding
more

much

less

be.

by

his

weather.

is

of the

and

show

more

fiction

had

much

to

and

weather,

Yet
of

sense

the

ple
exam-

supernatural by

characters.

with

of
graph
para-

notable

of

profound

skillful

nature

However,

it still

method

harmonizing

of terror

means

while

introductory

of Usher

in

of

characters.

common

Poe's

subject.

the

of the

fiction, and

of

purposes

of

impressiveness

terror

power

Macbeth,

supernatural,
on

its

including phenomena

special

and

of the

for

none

employment

emotions

creating athiosphere

shows

of the

by representing aspects

the

to

seemingly

in

gate

in his essay

scenes

The

atmosphere

of the

largely

Fall of the House

details

modem

are

ghostly

in

of skill in

moods

relied

overworked

in The

Hardy

out

with

technique

various

pointed

horror.
the

the

at

varied

the

of that, but

effect

an

harmonize

to
was

knocking

produce

novel

emphasizing

on

to

to

the

present-

fear, the deep

of

master

perfect example

of

care

up

was

The

incident

De

utmost

make

to

Shakespeare

instance, is

strike

to

Shrill notes

with

go

how

crashing chords

chooses

of his time.

natural

the

The

produced.

are

knows

the

awe,

trivial details

other

awe

supernaturalism,

diapason
skillful

terror

295

allusions

selective

many

and

awe,

reference

no

the

to

at

all

made

now

than

power

of

old.

Gothic
that

gloom

circled
and

specimens.
prey," "a
such

vague

portentously
ghosts, but
The

they

fowl

were

term.

their

ominous

ancient

melancholy
castles

generic and

bat,"

Natural
since

of

always spoken

was

night bird," "a

generally known
introduce

over

say

those

birds

"an

history
times
with

and
more

individual

"a

as

owl,"
has

filled with

not

of

birds

bird

by

or

become

writers

of

of

some
more

to-day

definiteness

and

Conclusion

296

window

in

ledge
of

symbol

whole

the

individualized
Poe's
in

is

raven

overhead

the

Gothic

as

particularly foreboding
"On

the

glare

of

dark
the

horrible
fiction

buzzard

that

of the

buried
no

shrieks

and

is not

the

This

bird

is

produce

him

with

toward

buzzard

that

of

little negro

where

faint

the

last

he

thinks, close

at

all that

at

for the

the

child

find
he

this

tinkle
lies
bear

can

he

hand,

time

picked

derer
mur-

body

that

hears, but

has

his

of the

example

awe,

At

to

belled

the

leading figure in

marsh

only

the

is in recent

than

fate, and

horror.

"

There

and

terror

confession,

land.

the

against

excellent

he

in

brings

ghostly disaster,

import

an

the

over

terror.

black, motionless, its

the

minister

soars

belled

cowbell

of

is

specimen

any

Chambers

in

makes

hearing it, as

his

out

thing

heaven."

Cobb

to

paralyzes

more,

old

it

as

definite

it turns

dreadful

name.

in the

of its bell

novels

cormoiBnt,

more

natural

sees

his

portent

when

toward

Irvin

story by that
use

sat

raised

bird

no

of

glistening cliffs,silhouetted

sea,

head

another

of

that

kite

W.

vampire,

of evil than

Robert

times

is

the

to

the

bird

clings

as

more

aviary.

several

cormorant

in

becomes

vastly

novel

situation,

horrible

and

that

bat

Stoker's

Bram

menacingly

soars

repulsive

The

appropriateness.

only
up

it
an

in the

barnyard!
Robert

give

as

shadows

of

favored

phantoms
indicate
a

"

effects

of life and

spiritsor

of persons

shade

for
and

fated

conditions

they

strange little allegory, The

writers
effects.

have

used

similar

disaster
gray

"

as

white;
is

gray

for witches

destiny.

or

to

for
to

Quiller-Couch

Magic Shadow,

methods

of

speaks of

perfectly black,

are

of

He

be

whether

to

descriptions

to

may

effect

sometimes

by

character.

shadows

ghostly

differing

early stories contrives

his

symbolic

supernatural

his

again

in

supernatural

varying

shadows

has

Chambers

W.

produce

and

other

uncanny

Conclusion
The

Gothic

supernatural,
and

which

with

part abandon

clock

forever

the

winds,

the

story is

adapts
it

that

mark.

prophetic

of

the

fleshly

the

spiritbelonging

reminds

give

somewhat

us

Beddoes's

The
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horrors

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ghostly effect, and

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selective in its aids

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statuesque

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striking twelve

approach

at

fiction

of the

of portents

use

conventional

the

bell that

abbey

much

skill.

impoverished

so

blue

later

greater

most

castle

made

romance

297

to

after
climax

Conclusion

298
will

he
his

like

become

reflection

in

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gaze.

and

the
the

incident

an

where

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in

seeks

man

whom

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suggestions
modern

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effectiveness

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children
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herself

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is

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drama.

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of

presence

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only

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make

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in

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of

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ghost

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boy

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stories

many

and

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play

unearthly

in fiction

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only

peculiarly

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presences

person

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with

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long time

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woman

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as

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supematuralism

impressions.

adults,

Peter

or

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on

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of modern

suggestiveness

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be

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fiction.

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to

with

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of

technique

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published literary drama,

love, and

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numberless

in Gothic

anything
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in

who

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world

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fallen

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terror

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later

stories, who

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by

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in

Psychic

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ghostly phenomena.

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dog

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299

ghostly

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stories

more

than

subtle, the technique

of

power

in the

earlier.

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skillfullystudied,

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in

suggestion

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on

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instances

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given

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on

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paranoia

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just how

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insanity.

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uncanny

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writers, Russian, French, and

recent

English,

as

of Poe, and

fiction,notably the work

company
are

human

supernatural.

curious

mind,

Barry

Conclusion

300

Celestial

Pain's
nian

whose

him

inverted

real

things, all

novel

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power

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work

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described
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supematuralism

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aspects

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distinguished from

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ghostly beings, and


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divine

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preceding chapters

supematuralism

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d'un

of

says

in

her

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school.

Sogno

Dunsany
it be

noticed

have

modern

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to

phantom.

insanity

modem

of the

the

woman

come
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significant instances

whether

insanity,

of

her

story

from

the

of Ambrose

D'Annunzio's

and

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of

work

of

more

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power

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changes

no

can

effects

others

some

else's life,is

ghost

come

in the

supernatural

sanity and

someone

the

and

must

extraordinary

are

live

to

died

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spirit of Mary

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joy of Peter

interesting aspect of

of twenty-eight

dream-lover

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line

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point

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pathetic

dream-metempsychosis

his

striking example.

is the

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only

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passion and

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portrajang

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shadows.

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planet, showing

another

to

life,where

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aspects

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recent

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ployed.
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by malignant
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or

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influences

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with

compound

forces

of

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wind

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previous chapter.

ball-gowns,

to

shade

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in

normal, they

more

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out

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on

to

evil

of

general belief,

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man,

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thrill.

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human,

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to

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more

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in the

significant tendency

to

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beings,

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portrayed.

show

uncanny

of

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characters

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di-

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characters

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in evil than

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into

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demon

novel

terror

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Mrs.

Stoker's

evil, a vampire

of

Daskam

and

Walpole

power

early

the

their

work

fire to

that

of Bram

immemorial

an

and

wave

the

control

that

Elementals

his

power,

301

as

their

ancestors

were.

Conclusion

302

but

are

interested

are

their

in, from
of

range

would

in

as

that

Edith

about

it

is that

was

thinks
a

ghost.

chance

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victim
have
are

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living revenge-ghost,

both

motions

coming

to

have

of

more

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if any
have

the

than

angels

with

of

of

under

of

excess

activities, retaining

with

souls

their

and,

angels

that

them

very

renders

for

is

charming

in

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avidity

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and

and

masculine

in

grow

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sorts

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tastes.

cherub

for cold

youth

crowns,

engage

that

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and
and

harps

more

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winged

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seraph,

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cordial

democratic,

angels

rest,

to

higher

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little for

care

mortals

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be.

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as

ghosts

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realistically mortal

are

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to

gunning

goes

satire,

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tastes.

fidgety

they used

vicar

naive

story
in

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are

of humor

sense

his

them.

only

now

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men.

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are

takes

sympathetically,

more

fellow-feelingfor

yet dead,

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men,

wife

the

finally

like

them

knows

one

not

man

him.

emotions

regard

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certain

that

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with

away

and

interesting than
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spirit of

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suit whom

gray

ghosts,

as

haunting

to

normal

so

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in the

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applied

are

long afterwards

man

mysteriously

been

recognizes them

apparition

till

The

has

test

story

And

immeasurably.

widened

one

no

they

war.

specters

the

it is not

present

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peculiar thing
house

often

everything

on

the

to

literacy

fiction.

in appearance
"

has

the

recent

views

socialism

interests

that

seem

ghosts in

forth

chatty, giving

very

chatty,

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and

potatoes

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companionship.
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demons

influence

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in

their

raised

to

the

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at

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same

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mottled

gray

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the

are

devil

angels.

the

thing is reversed, and

grade of humanity.

fiction,
a

the

case,

have

by

experienced

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in

weU

they

coming
is not

like ourselves.

to

are

see,

really
Satan,

Conclusion
in Mark

Twain's

devil

is of

parting

no

comic

there

of

the

humanized

life.

forth

in

These

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natural

given

of

in Hawthorne's

wooden

image,

the

witch

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incident
The

The

Duchess

at

horror

that

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jade

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idol^

that

moor

to

in its presence,

has

peripatetic

statue.

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of which

play

which

shows

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realize

to
'

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has

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fiction

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only

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possibilities
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me

across

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four

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steps

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to

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intense

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loathing

stony

vengeance

fatalityas

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destroys with

wore,

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meant

inexorable
is

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that

in

god, remind

century

more

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Satan

that

statue

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seen

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countenance

exact

mate
inani-

image, Browne's

life,then

gence
intelli-

changes its expression, shpwing

through

face

desolate

the

The

Prayer that

the

of

the

plants, and

is

scarecrow,

carelessness

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in

seen

endowing

of

snow

clay figures

mythology.

from

is

feeling, and

idea

with

current

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author's

an

some

angels, and

personality

models, endues

its marble

on

and

ages
person-

a/continuing

motion,

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vivified

makes.
novel

by

stories,as his

the

fine, casual

the

life

though

feel in

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objects, machinery,

animals, in late literature.

times

of

sense

found

vampire,

fiction.

short

power

figures with

the

speed

to

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guest.

leveling influence

inanimate

to

cut

of the

aspect

than

more

be

willing

devils, witches,

ghosts,

Shaw's

stories,yet all these

modern

stories

real to

too

are

witch

of the

Bernard

of

or

young

namesake

name.

coming

werewolf

affable

an

courtesy,

the

comic

supernatural

recent

that

is

'

and

nephew

by

welcome

several

are

of

known

to

as

use

are

the

Chesterfieldian

the

be

to

best

personage

novel,

posthumous

fellow, claiming

303

Inn.

is

quick

in every

Conclusion

304

field.

So

diabolic

with

himian

with

immortality

fiction.

or

And

the
to

come

In

the

man's

thought

and

is

than

more

force

in

and

awful

as

wind

and

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in

or

for

in

wait

of

the

of

evil.

where

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where

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with

the

way.

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aspects

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to
or

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of
level

did

other
well

as

in

appearance,

hand,

plants,

plane

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and

is

sea

vital

are

as

in

the
of

mortals,

for

or

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strength.

in Maeterlinck's

as

terrible

in

Daughter

compelling

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of

less effective

literature

recent

becoming

humanity,

character

phenomena

action, yet in

nature

foe, lying

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Stramm's

associate

his

are

inanimate

access

of nature,
of

power.

makes

have

mortal

or

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like

On

powers.

raised

angels,

made

objects, and
are

his supernatural

Ghosts,

humanized,

passions, and

phenomena

given

now

image.

own

devils, witches, werewolves,


man

lure

ously
vari-

elements

are

drama,

fiction,man

in

characters

to

as

evil, or

of

man's

the

is

moor

of

terrible

divine.

general, in modern

In

the

of the

moods

is shown

that

August

the

fiction

nature

else diabolic

in

or

man,

story

this

stresses

in

"

silent,invisible,yet dominant

is the

Death

and

"goblin trees"

from

well

as

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resistless

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to

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it is

setting,

the

steals

natural
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superior

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characters

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illustrated
where

force,

with

power,

of

power

his

far

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on

vampire

be

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bilities
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given

new

Egypt

where

or

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flame

supernatural
in

of

any

given

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where

uncanny

human.

maelstrom

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power,

is

force

of the

part of the

stories,as

all

new

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a

make

sometimes

action.

to

significant class

is

"

interest

nature

gifted

sometimes

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that

level

equal,

merely

in his

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more

endowed

specimens, animals

botanical

the

animals,
to

the

as

human

leveling process

Conclusion
democratizes
make

the

them

The

in fiction

published

ably
is

volume

and

that

the

the

Elizabethan

tragedy, and

This

may

drama

of the
to

and

few

illustrate
on

the

by

Edward

earlier

time.

of

with

its
of

its

of

to
a

scope,

of them

extent

being
which

to

in

Locke,

alter

expel the

The

trates
only illus-

adaptability

to

in

in

from

the

is the

will
used

are

most

study,

laboratory
the

"

ments
experi-

girl,a chronothe

make
dramatic

setting
instance

of Dr.

dramatization

'

critics to be

by

Prince's

Morton

revolving mirrors,

course,

York,

New

is said

used

intruder

But

in the last

personality is represented

of Dr.

evil

dynograph,

plays

Jerome
In

This

Jekyll's

ego.

The

'

frequency

in the

ghostly motifs

play which

dramatization

kind, of

of the

and

melodrama

its

seen

the

Double

truly psychical.

seem

in

and

of the

its appearance

plays produced

psychological apparatus

where

tragic drama,

makes

tragedy.

sphere

its best.

assertion

the

decrease

of the

some

stage of to-day.

virtually a

in

use

of the

now

no

is at

thesis

of art.

most

the

associated

occult

extent

classic

Greek

tragedy

The

has

Tragedy,

frequently

make

far to

too

though

survey

years,

most

periods

widening

forms

brief

is

recently

His

of

present

effectiveness

varying

in

as

England.

in

age

where

going

comedy,

the

in

Whitmore,

is found

considerable

in

even

true

be

C.

and

drama

in the

subject, especially in the

with

yet it would

marked

Supernatural

supernatural

be

supernatural

in the

as

E.

The

on

the

are

Mr.

poetry.

treated

period

of interest

in literature

or

-to

equal.

revival

its appearance

tends

and

elements

supernatural

almost

present

305

"t

The

of

Charles

are

akin

Case

of Becky.

Servant

to

in the House.

the

Kennedy

Rann

old

mystery

and

plays

Jerome
in

that

K.

they

'

The

Disassociation

of a Personality.

"

The

Passing of the

Third

Floor

Back.

Conclusion

3o6
divinity

personate
influence

of

sinful

on

Edward

Milton

William

M.

Cohan.

and

does

Vida

play by

turns

on

of

dead.

faith

Others'

and

from

rescue

satirizes

such

Grimm,

do

for

their

belief

and

the

latter

the

is

war

stage
that

at

they

miracles

of

first-named

piece of

the

on

themes

danger, though

spirits,

while

realize

not

plays

George

with

ghosts

who

have

and

converse

four

in

occur

power,

Peter

shows

basis

the

as

Bjornson,"

Moody,

astonishing phantoms

once,
are

Sutton'

and

Thomas'

Supernatural healing,

of- divine

Return

Christly

of

hypnotism

denouement.

Another'

Belasco's

miracle

Augustus

introduce

Vaughan
s

the

hearts.

intervention

by

as

show

Royle^

complication

miraculous

and

play

Catholic

propaganda.

Magic,
forces

G.

Peter

changing

of

in

ancient

upon

an

myth

with

We

light from
of

supermortal
soul

as

Bernard

shows

the
us

Hauptmann

gives

Frankenstein

theme

The

Witching

The

Faith

The

Miracle

'

As

"

Peter

Pan.

The

Blue

The

M.

in

has

devil

Hour.

Eternal

Bird.

The

in his

used

Healer.
Man.

hamadryad

B.

been

visions

of

provoke

In

The

""

Beyond
'

Kingdom

Mystery, by George Jean Nathan,


' "

The

Land

"

The

Mermaid.

and

of Heart's

and

town,
heaven.

laughter

Unwritten
Their

' "

staged,"

home

'

senting
repre-

Yeats,

own

to

Spiritualist.

as

mirror.

even

Hannele's
is

Barrie, ' W.

mermaid

us

The

is built

Rhodes,

phantasies, such

contained

the

psychic
And

manner.

Harrison

novel,

other

legend, relating

and

while

distinctive

fairy plays by J.

Shaw

various

Japanese

other

have

and

and

blue.

to

green

Maurier's

Du

such

happen,

to

and

Maeterlinck,"

"

electric

supernatural

Benrimo

woman's

made

dramatization

delicate

Willow_ Tree, by

In

the

introduces

are

dream-supernaturaUsm,

effects

'

things

strange

Ibbetson, the

shows

The

Chesterton,

K.

whereby

the

as

by

Law.

Strength.
Come.
The

Rosary.

Desire.

Conclusion
mixed

with

thrills.'

man's

better

dream-drama,

naturalism.

Owen

angel,

shows

while

symbolic

of

piece

super-

been

already

have

plays

bolize
sym-

Magdalene,

Eternal

The

another

Davis"

Robert

and

Dunsany's

Lord

307

mentioned.
Yet

the

drama,

supernatural,
restricted

of

forms
in

and

fiction.

the

the

fiction.

ghostly
The

is

the

on

closet

their

does

not

limitation, for in effect it is almost

closet
akin

drama

makes

The
in

their

personce

white

to

girl he

loves.

"

of

persistenbes

Shadows,
a

Instances

'In

The

Any

Mail

Fast

stage), and

In

Blue

Last

so

is prose,

he

In
as

Dreiser's

Sphere,

(though

Power

trains

in

the

accepts

on

his

upHfted
Padraic

hand,
yields

of bread

for

short

plays

bring

and
of
have

the

birds,

As

gift,a

price

on

its

insists

who

wildly protests.

representation

fish, animals,

with

Raphael
includes

another,
the

ghostly

the

uses

the
in

stage,

symbolic

Physics, Nitrous
been

used

on

the

forth.

from

recent

Laugh, by

House.

is closer

than

goddess

pain he

Heaven.

of

troduce
in-

to

The

poetry

another

moon

human

impossible

creatures

and

Theodore

this

fiction

Archangel

the

fairies' power

the

himself

"

and

butterfly poises itself

flits toward

many

presences.

supernatural

soul, at which

suffering and

symbolic

Acid,

shows

bar

natural.

more

faun

giving the faun

through

"

the

miracles, while

dog, working

then

use

One

ways.

dramatis
on

of

ties
necessi-

under

as

literary playlet,so popular just now,

many

his

forms

occult

the

come

free

as

poetic form

in

usually

certain

to

which

is

but

more

place naturally

invisible

mystical, symbolic, and

the

inevitably

take

drama

it, is

of

popular,

stage

that

art

of

forms

aspects

psychic drania

presentation
of

Many

of the

revival

definite

illustratingvarious

than

and

appear

though showing

Paul

drama

German
Dickey

and

Charles

might
W.

be

Goddard.

given,

Conclusion

3o8
the

as

and

of

work

ill-starred

the

fallen

as

says

of the

world

the

be

and

wind

likewise

On

join in

dreadful

one

from

example

Old

beings

human

malicious
likeness

field of the

the

silhouetted.
manifold
Woe

unto

But

of

as

dead

dead
if

as

the

victorious!"

said, these

I have

fiction

is

subjects from

the

on

than

arise, and

dramatic

way

be

presented

truly of the province


a

jeweled

such

as

agencies
Sancla

beauty

and

the

on

may

be

Susanna.

"

In

'

King-Hunger.

than
effects

stressed

instance,
and
'

are

judged

For

the

and

choice

which

could

of

as

come!

impossible

drama.

which

used

are

seen

dull, distant,

is the

stage, but

melody

invisibility,for

they

over

is

heard, "We

its range

in

of poetry,
a

standards.

supernatural

suggestive, symbolic, mystic


any

that

so

infinitely freer
the

is

tinuous
con-

remote

Death

literarydramas,

are

stage,

the

slain, but

figure of

underground,

murmur,

literary rather
part

the

only

are

men

motionless

the

But

presentation

bearing

starving

The

Death, and

distorted, "one

and

monstrosity

man."

to

mentioned

be

principal actors, while

the

are

arise

enemies.

their

King-Hunger,

all deformed

are

against

of

and
dead

the

striking play-' might

Bell-Ringer,

time

cludes
in-

He

nature

of death

the Russian.

of

waves

Hauptmann^

of

forces

of hate

chant

Andreyev's

Leonid

Carl

Blossoms.

battlefield

the

the

to

Spider, Nightingales,

elemental

the

super-nature.

an

and

in

of earth."

flames

characters'

Wind,
shows

in

beauty
these

believed

passions

human

Literary

all the

felt behind
and

has

revolution

article in the

passions

water,

his

MoonHght,

as

and

light

among

to

of

projections

Brooke

Rupert

Irish

An

"he

its elemental

like

the

war.

that

of Stramm

Digest

of

poets
to the

sacrifice

who

Stramm,

August

most

of
The

more

that

various

analyzed

in

fiction

Are

Singing.

The

Dead

has

Elements

poetry.

and

In

in

not
are

in prose

by

occult
as

Conclusion

would

be

between

impossible

insanity
shown

as

the

be

thus

the

in the

forces

of

better

stage

they

seen

weird

novel

the

imaged

the

story,
How

could

citizens

in the
of

which

heavens?

be

Likewise

it

popular

be

said

vehicle

for

might

present

the

on

the

fiction

varied

more

dramatic,

as

that

current

literature

and

with

and

Bible

are

the
'

'

or

in Marie

cardinal
The

Second

finds
Coming.

in

the

the
doubtedly
un-

English literature.
which

rising tide

The
all

drama,

affords

literary forms,

in the

epics

few

short

itself in countless

story
in

ways

inviting lines of investigationsuggest


to

various

aspects

especially related

as

used,

is introduced

Christ

novel,

often

of

lyric poetry, with

interesting field for research.

an

offers

expression

itself in

manifests

reference

supernatural

The

shows

art

full presentation

achieved,

be

form, that

in the standard
It

themselves

best

the

fiction

for effectiveness.

narrative,

novel.

in the

as

in

playlet as

in the

the

chances

unearthly

of the

"

is likewise

looming

stage.

reviving supernaturaHsm
And

his

as

Devil

can

or

Invasions.

in fiction

supernaturaHsm

be

novel

in the

instance,

his Giant

or

ence,
influ-

not

Psychic

or

thus

delicate

could

action, for

impossible

conclusion,

most

such

scientific

would

that

Elementals

if

with

suggested

on

meant

are

impressive

most

can

seen

and

represented

turning into witch-cats

mightily

In

be

may

stage

one

be

can

be

they

Banquo,

presences

Blackwood's

as

like

drama,

agencies
to

if

tively
effec-

more

in the

need

effect, even

they

boards

much

incalculable
Ghosts

relation

close

story than

corporeal for the

too

in fiction

on

the

best

Supernatural

reserve.

be

can

short

or

The

stage.

apparitions"

are

while

the

mystery,

have

to

the

emphasized.

"selective

as

and

on

309

as

in

in other

CorelU's
the

Lew

The

satire
child
'

The

and
on

Master

from

Ben

places,

Hur,
as

Episcopacy,

outside

study.

religion offers

miracles

Wallace's

times

Christ

to

of its

the

Christian,

the
^

the
and
war

where

cathedral.

Conclusion

310

The

than

more

of

experience

Two

to

the

in

Howells.
in

One

might

ghostly

well

as

being

to

rather

than

help

to

phase

late

as

in

supernatural

of

modem

plots
by

of

on

George

William

aspect

the

out

or

Dean

the

subject

drama,

present

complete.

It
and

fiction
is

shall

interest

literature

and

in

lead

others

and
of

be

gratified

to

the

sions
preten-

no

significant

festations
mani-

treatment

to

be

the

melodrama

makes

meant

its

study

including
This

of

appearances

might

one

English

further

our

by

this

trace

tragedy.

exhaustive,

arouse

God,

poetry,
the

their

'

modem
in

fiction.

Kerith,

Brook

on

profitably

in

comedy

touched

article.

previous

The

forth,

so

modern

base

importance

Leather-wood

have

in

the

prayer,

and

miracles,

extent

religion.

The

and

Moore,

of

to

answers

spiritual

novels

miraculous

as

considerable

recent

very

elements,

conversion,

present

are

mortal

suggestive
if
and

pursue

it

may

vital
the

investigations.
"

and

"Religion
Expositor.

in

Recent

American

Novels,"

in

the

January,

1914,

Review

INDEX
Anti-Jacobin, The,
Any House, 307
Apuleius, Lucius,

Accusing Spirit,The, 21
Address
to the De'il,An,
131
^sop, Fables, 231
Affair of Dishonor, An, gi
Afterwards, 102, 202
Afterwards, 302
Aliasuerus, 176
Ahrinziman, 88, 183, 213
Aids

to

Gothic

Ainsworth,

Eflfect,36
H., 181

W.

Amazonian

Applier, Arthur,
Jungles, A,
Arabian

Amos

Judd,

40,

Amphitryton,
Amyous

217

257

122

21

Sorceries, 65, 105,

124,

153,

194

Andersen,
176, 233
The

Hans

Little

"Christian,

Mermaid,

155,

Lester,
Strange
the Phcenician,

ofPhra,

188

Matthew:

Forsaken

Merman,The,

155,233

Neckan, The, 155


Arrest, An, 85
and

Gorlogon, 30

Hound,

Mervyn, 35
Artist of the Beautiful, The, 287
Astral
Bridegroom, An, 207
At the End
of the Passage, 120
At the Gate, 201, 291
Auerbach,
Berthold, 176
Austen, Jane, 47, 49
Northanger Abbey, 47, 51
ing
Austin, Alfred, Peter Rugg, the MissMan,
189
Austin, M. H., Readiustment, 107
Avengers, The, 56
Ayesha, 183, 193

Bacon, Josephine Daskam,


Children, The, 289

94

Heritage, The, 94
Miracle, The, 254

Strange
The, 254,

Cases

of Dr. Stanchion,

299

Unburied, The, 66, 301


Warning, The, 276
Bahr-geist, The, 115, 225

Castle, 34
Little Heath

122

176,

Andreyev, Leomdas, 69
King-Hunger, 308
Red
Laugh, The, 69
Silence,293
Angel Island, 294
Angel Message, An, 207
Ankerwich

24
Beiden

Die

155,

233

Another

The,

Arnold,

252
8 et seq.

Monitor,

von,

Edwin

Adventures

the

Arthur

and

Oswyth,. 9,

the Invisible
Achim

Arthur

Celestine, 63
Anansi
Stories, 232
Ancient
Legends and Superstitionsof
Ireland, 229
Ancient
Records
the Abbey
or
of St.
Ancient

Gothic,

Ariel, or

Arnold,

of

168

Amim,

Waldemar,

et seq.

Vendetta

Nights' Tales,

Architecture,

Myths'2j,2

Tortoise

Metamorphoses,

145

Albigenses, The, 9, 11, 94, 168, 288


Aldrich, Thomas
Bailey, 63
Miss
Mehitabel's
Son, 68, 85,
287
Plre
Date
Antoine's
Palm,
63
Queen of Sheba, The, 122

Amboyna, 41
Amiei, Priedrich, 144
the Immortals,
Among

51

290
31

Index

312

Bierce, Ambrose,

de, 182
Elixir
of Life, The, 60
Magic Skin, The, 60

Balzac, Honors

Masterpiece, The,

Unknown

Kendrick,

Bangs, John

112,

Typewriter,

Enchanted
207, 286
House-boat

Arrest, An, 85
Damned
Thing, The, 61, 92
Death
Frazer, The,
of Halpin

60

293

of

the

Middle

Styx, The,

the House-boat,

The, 61, 92
Mysterious

The,

The, 197
The, 255
Christmas
Story, 121
and
Others, The,

Water-Ghost
112

The,

Stories

Bardic

"

Disappearances, 2^9
Creek Bridge,

at Owl

Two

Military Executions,

Vine

on

16

A, 90

the House,

Birthmark, The, 185,

243

S., 181

Eve, 246
Letters from

Right Foot,

the

34

Barker, Elsa, 206,


a

207

Living Dead

Man,

Letters

from

Living

Dead

270

Bisclaveret, 30, 168


Bisland, Elizabeth, The Case of John
Smith, 21$
Bjomson,
Bjomstjerne, 306

207
War

170,

Biology, Supernatural, 270


Biology, Supernatural in Gothicism,

99

of Ireland,

Baring-Gould,
"

The,

The, 275

Heroine,
the Lens,

on

of

Toe

Occurrence

Thurlow's

Banshee,

the Panther,

of

Eyes
271

on

112, 187, 216


Rebellious

Speck

192

no,

The,

112,216
Pursuit

300

290,

Reconcilie, 59

Melmoth

116,

61, 109,

53,

Black

Beyond Their
Magic, 146

Strength, 306

Monk,
The, 69
Patch, The, 255
R. D., Lorna
Doone, 226
Blackmore,
Blackwood,
Algernon,
68, 76, 79,
85. 96, los, 166, 171, 235, 273,
285, 287, 300, 304, 309
Ancient
Sorceries, 65, 124, 153,

Bla^k

Man, 206, 292


Barker, Granville, 123,

198
Souls
Fifth, 123, 198, 215
on
Stannard, 8, 49
Barrett, Eaton
Heroine, The, 49, 50
Barrie, J. M., 240
Little White
Bird, The, 240
Peter Pan, 240, 306
Baynim, John, 246
Baynim, Michael, 246
Beckford, WiUiam,
17
Vathek, 8, 17, 22, 25, 29, 33, 37,

Black

194

of the Dog, The, 170


Clairvoyance, 289
Empty House, The, 98, 117
Glamour
The,
Snow,
of the
Camp

70

231

Beddoes,

Lovell, 53, 297


Jest Book, 53, 115, 297

Thomas

Death's

Beetle, The, 290


Return
of Peter
Belasco, David,
Grimm,
The, 201, 298
Beleaguered City, The, 211
Bellamy, Edward, 189
189, 262
Looking Backward,
Belled Buzzard,
The, 296
with
the
Rose, Man
Benet, William
218
Pigeons, The,
Ben
Hur, 309
Bennett, Arnold, Ghost, The, 117

Beowulf,

281

Berenice, 62
Besant,
Walter,

Island, 4, 114
Fire, The, 231
Human
Chord, The, 275
Jules Le
Vallon, 194
Keeping His Promise, 98
Man
from the Gods, The,
Haunted
Heath

"

'"

Man

Whom

The, 230,

Loved,

of the Fire, A, 98
Clothes, 124, 194
Psychic Invasion, A, loS
Regeneration
Ernie,
of Lord
The, 230
Return, The, 123, 198
Old

Gate, The,

Sea

230

Fit, The, 230

Secret

Worship,
Temptation of

122

Betrothed, The, 225


Beyond Their Strength,306

Trees

272

Nemesis

Sand,
Ivory

the

121

231

105,
117,
the
Clay,

137

The,

Index

(Continued)

Blackwood, Algernon
Terror

of

The, 122,

the Twins,

Lay
148

of

Transfer, The, 164

Wave, The,

Brushwood

With

Intent

Bleek, W.

H.

South

194

Steal,62, 117

to

the

I., Reynard,

Fox,

Africa, 232

Blind, The, 64, 298


Blithedale
The, 188, 199
Romance,
Blue-Bird, The, 64, 278, 280, 306
Blue Roses, 268
Blue Sphere, The, 208, 278
and

Host

Mine

Blythe, James,

the

The, 124
272

et

seq.

Gordon, 65, 153, 285


by Night, The, 65, 238
Riding to Lithend, 152
and
Bowmen
Others, The, 204, 258,
Crier

282

Brand, 65
Brandes, Georg,

Personality, 122
Brentano, Die Mehreren

Wuthering Heights, 86,


Brook
Kerith, The, 31c
Brooke, Rupert, 308

In

226

283

Proceedings of the
Research
Society, 281,
loi,

211

and

There, loi, 107


Tryst, The, 126, 211
Charles
Brockden, 35
Brown,

Mervyn,
Edgar Huntley,

Arthur

35
39

Wieland, 35, 39
Brownie
of Bodbeck, The, 26, 38

Browning,
Drama

Elizabeth

No

Strange Land, 96,

No

212

Lord:

Cain, 136
Giaour, The, 160
and
Heaven
Earth,
Vision
of Judgment,

and

Certain

Here

Ain't

Parker, Dey

221

4,

134

The, 38

of Lammermoor,
Brieux, Eugene, 252
Brissot's
Ghost, 89
86
Emily,
Bronte,

Psychical
283
Alice,
Brown,

Ellis

Butler, Samuel, 262


Erewhon, 262
of Paradise, 83
By the Waters

122

On

213

Ghosts, 128
Butler, Katherine,

Wehmiiller,

Bride

Failure, 222
Heaven, 221,

Haunted,

the

291

Byron,

122

Reduplication

Romantic

Bunyan, John,
Burger, 56

Butler,

The, 70

Imp,
Bottomley,
Bottle

Christmas

Lenore, 56
Prances
Hodgson, White
Biumett,
People, The, 203, 298
Robert, 232
Bums,
Address
131
to the De'il, An,
Tarn
O'Shanter, 156
Miss, Shropshire Folk-tales,
Bums,

Another, 156
Bonhote, Mrs., 20
Bungay Castle,20, 45
Book
of the Serpent, 292
Book
of Wonder, The, 245
Supernatural,

and

Haunters

Witch, 148
Bon, 95, 141
Bones, Sanders, and

Botany,

69

The, 195
Well Road, 138
Bubble
Robert, 177
Buchanan,
Jew, a
Wandering
Carol, The, 177, i8o
Boy,

The, 60, 78, 188, 299


Strange Story, A, 90, 182
Bungay Castle, 20, 45

Bon

Borderland,

The,

Rosary,

the Brown

Browning, Robert, 69
Sludge, the Medium,

192

in

313

Barrett, 148

of Exile, A,

133

Cable, George W., 226


Calderon, 27, 133
El Embozado,
119
El Magico
Prodigioso, 100,
Camp of the Dog, The, 170
Campbell-Praed, Mrs., 207

Nyria, 207
Captain Stormfield'sVisit
Extracts
from, 201, 217
Car ofPhcebus, The, 207
Carmen
Sylva, 176, 233
Case

of Becky,

to

143

Heaven,

The, 305

of John Smith, The, 215


Castle of Caithness, The, 20
Castle of Otranto, The, 4, 8, 16,

Case

31. 36. 40. 52. loi


Castle of Wolfenbach, The, 48
Castle

Specter, The,

53

Celestial Grocery, The, 265, 300

25,

Index

314

Yankee

King Arthur's

Celestial Railroad, The, 213,

Connecticut

Celtic

Court, A, 189, 262, 286


Converse, P., 93

265, 300
Revival, The, 227
Celtic Twilight, The, 239
Robert
W., 87, 290, 296
Chambers,
The

Messenger,

88

Chamisso,
59, 176
Erscheinung, 122
Chansons
de Gestes, 7
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 87, 140, 217
Friar's
Tale, The, 140
Chemistry, Supernatural, 267
Cher, Marieri97
Immortal
Gymnasts,
The, 197
Chesterton, G. K., 306
Magic, 306
Children, The, 289
Children
of the Mist, The, 226
Christabel, 148, 238
Clairvoyance, 289
Clara
MiUtch, 68, 162
Clark, Rev.
T., Wandering
Jew, or
the

Travels

of Bareach,

the

longed,
Pro-

The, 178
Clarke, Laurence, 94
Grey Guest, The, 94, 282
Clermont, 48
Cloak, The, 68
Closed
Cabinet, The, 107
Cobb,
Irvin, Belled
Buzzard, The,
296
Cobb, Palmer, Influence of E.T.A.

Hoffmann

Edgar

on

Allan

Co-operativeGhosts, 93, 98
Conway, Hugh, 103
Our
Last .Walk, 103
Conway, M. D., 180
Cooper, J. Fenimore, 226
Co-operative Ghosts, 93, 98
Corbin, John,
Corelli, Marie:

76

Master

Christian, The, 309

Romance

of Two Worlds, A,
of Satan, The, 136,

Sorrows

Roderick's

Count

Times,

Castle,

213
144

Gothic

at

20

Countess

Cathleen, 65, 143


Shadd, The, 152
Courting of Dinah
Coward, The, 61
Charles
Craddock,
Egbert, 83, 104,
226

His
Unquiet Ghost, 83
P.
Marion,
Crawford,
68, 94,
37,
109, 116, 117
Among the Immortals, 217
By the Waters
of Paradise, 83
Detid Smile, The, 70, 109
Doll's
Ghost, A, 98
For the Blood Is the Life,62, 78,
162

Khaled,

Foe,

62, 70, 147

Overboard,

Man

97

Mr.

The, 58
Cocotte,61
Coffin Merchant,

Isaacs, 37, 71
Skull, The,
Screaming

The, 254
Cohan, George M., 306
Miracle
Man,
The, 306
Taylor, 65, 118
Coleridge, Samuel
Christabel, 148, 238
Wanderings of Cain, The, 118
Collins,Wilkie, 78
Dream
Woman,
The, 78
Ghost
Touch, The, 103
Haunted
Hotel, The, 89, 100
Qtieen of Hearts, The, 107, 113

Collins,William, Ode on the Popular


Superstitionsof the Highlands, 74
Collison-Morley, Lacy, 202
Greek
and Roman
Ghost Stories,
202

Comer, Cornelia
Ghost, The, 118
Comus, 7, 148
Confessions of a

A.

P.,

Little

English Opium-

100

of Prague, The,

149,

195,

266

Crawford,
Her

Hour

Hope, Ida Lomond


of Vision, 207

and

Creation, 277
Crier by Night, The, 65, 238
Crock
of Gold, The, 241, 246

Croly, George,

179

Till I
Salathiel, or Tarry Thou
Come, 179
Crystal Egg, The, 263
Cuchulain
of Muirthemne,
243
Culex, 290
H., Patience
Curran, Mrs.
John

Worth,
of

153
Curse
'

an

Berth, The,

Upper
Witch

Curse

Justified Sinner,

60, 89,

92

Grey

29

Confessions of
Eater, 268

at

of

197, 207
the Cashmere

the

Fires

and

Shawl,
the

The,

Shadows,

The, 154

Curse

of the Wandering

Curtin, Jeremiah, 244

Jew, The, 177

Index
Curtis,George William,
Prue

and

315
On

258

121,

the

Knocking

at

in

the Gate

Macbeth, 295

I, 121, 258

into the Maelstrom,

Descent
D

The, 231,

253

Devil, The, 138

Dacre, Mrs., 10,


Zofloya, 10,

"38,

53.

Damned

Danby,
Daniel

17, 28, 33,

35,

Thing, The, 61, 92


Frank, Twilight,268
the Devil, 141

D'Annunzio,
Gabriel, 66
Daughter of Jorio, The, 67,
La

37.

154.251

and

Cittd, Morta,

Sogno

d'un

Dickey, Paul,

66, 298
di Prima-

Mattino

Sogno
Dante,

27,

d'Au-

Tramonto

133,

144,

209,

One, The,
Charles, 73, 251

215

Vera, the

Harding,

Die

Die

Adventure, The, 248


BulHvant, 185
Dr. Faustus, 15, 143
Dr. Heidigger's Experiment,
184, 252
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.
Hyde, 120, 268,

Dr.

305

The, 267
Romance,
The, 183, 184
Doll's Ghost, A, 98
Door
in the Wall, The, 258

City, The, 298

Ship of Harpswell, The, 187

Dead

no,

192
Death's

Jest Book, 53, 115, 297


Defoe, Daniel, 205
Veal, 205
Apparition of Mrs.
History of Duncan
Campbell,
The, 225
Demi-gods,
242
Demi-gods, The, 219, 221
Daemonic
Spirits,158 et seg.
Dffimonology, Gothic, 33

William

Frend,

The, 291

Dolliver

Dead

The,

Harvey,

Doings of RafflesHaw,

Dead

Smile, The, 70, 109


Deakin, Lumley, 146
Red
Debts, 146
Death
of Hatpin Frazer,

of a Personality, The,

305
Divine

Dog

Day of My Death, The, 199


Days of the Comet, The, 264
Dead
Are
Singing, The, 282

Morgan,

House, The, 171


The, 1 14
Beiden
122
Waldemar,
Brant
Corinth, 162
von
Mehreren
122
Wehmutler,

Disassociation

155

Darwin,
Darwin, Erasmus, 14
Daughter of Jorio, The, 67, 149
Daughter of the Moor, The, 304
and
Davis,
Robert,
Owen,
Any

Doppelganger, 57, 119


Doppelgdnger, The, 122
Dorset, St. John, 159
Vampire,
The, 159
Personality, 305
Doyle, A. Conan, 79
Doings of Raffles Haw,

Double

Hound

Affair of Dishonor, An, 91


Likely Story, A, 287
Quincey, Thomas
Avengers, The, 56
English
Confessions of an
Opitlm-Eater, 268
Dream
Fugue, 15
Klosterheim, 56

The, 267

of the Baskervilles,
The,

290

Amigos

Los

Fiasco, The,

187,

270
No.

Lot

Secret

40,

62

of Goresthorpe Grange,

The, 79
Silver
Terror

92,

283

De

Haunted

Die

Nameless

House, 307
Davis, Richard
Medium,
200

The, 307

Charles:

Signal Man,

d'un

130,

307

Laugh,

Dickens,

tunno, 67, 152

De

Last

149

67, 300

vera,

Dark

and His Allies,The, 130 et seq.


Devil, Gothic, The, 27 et seq.
Devil and
Tom
Walker, The, 140
Devil in the Belfry, The, 141
Dey Ain't No Ghosts, 128
Diamond
Lens, The, 274
Devil

77

272
Dracula

Dream,
Dream
Dream

Mirror, The,
of Blue John

259

Gap, The,

^.^

7S^m, 188,,301
1 ke,VS

Fugue, 15
of the Japanese

Gown

sador,
Ambas-

The, 79
Dream
Dream
Dream

of Armageddon, A, 196,
of Provence, A, 293
The, 78
Woman,

262

Index

3i6

Dreams,
13, 77
Dreiser, Theodore:
Bltte Sphere, The, 208, 278
In the Dark, 208
Laughing Gas, 278
the
and
Plays of the Natural

Supernatural,
Spring Recital,A,
Dromgoole, Will Allen,
John, 41
Dryden,
208

Le

Vampire,

Eternal

159

Trilby, 267
Aldis, 244
Dunbar,
Olivia
Howard, 85
Dunbar,
Shell of Sense, The, 85, 212
Lord, 52, 63, 235, 243,
Dunsany,
244, 247, 249, 285, 292, 300
Book
The, 245
of Wonder,
Glittering Gate, The, 221, 222
Gods
of Pegana, The, 245
Gods
of the Mountain, The, 244,
303

Night

at

Time

and

Inn, A, 244,

an

the Gods,

303

245

Usury, 198
When

the Gods

Slept, 63, 74

Edgar Huntley, 39
Edwards, .Amelia, 86
Four-fifteen Express, The, 86
Eel-King, The, 233
Eighty-third,The, 61, 281
El Embozado,
119
Elementals, 300
Eleonora, 103
Eliot, George, 167, 257
Lifted Veil, The, 157
EUxilre
des Teufels, 57
Elixir of Life, The, 35, 182 et seq.
Elixir
of Life, The, 60
Elixir
of Youth, The, 186
Elizabethan
Drama,
The, 139
El

Prodigioso,

Mamco

Venner,

100,

143

170

Elves, 247

Emperor
Empty

Magdalen,

Curse

of

The, 177
Eve, 246
Evil Eye, The, 152
Exchange, The, 153,

from

Extract

and

House,

Galilean, 42,
The, 98, 117

66

Fits-

Jew,

156, 197

Stormfield's

Captain
An,

Eyes, The, 297


Eyes of the Panther,

Fable

of

Wandering

the

Visit to Heaven,

300

286

122

The, 27
Mystery, The, 306
House
the
or
Ethelwina,
Auburne, 25
A. 177
Eubule-Evans,

226

George:
DuMaurier,
Martian, The, 196, 207, 264
Peter
Ibbetson, 186, 196, 206,

Elsie

Erewhon, 262
Ersckeinung,
Eternal

Amboyna,
41
The, 121, 303
at Prayer,
Duchess
The,
Malfi,,
8, 166
of
Pfere, 159
Alexandre,
Dumas,

207,

62
Erckmann-Chatrian,
Invisible Eye, The, 62
Owl's
Ear, The, 62
Waters
of Death, The, 62

208

Duchess

Typewriter,The,

Enchanted

217

The,

170,

271

for Critics,A, 57

Fables, 2^1
Facts

in

the

Case

of

M.

Waldemar,

266

Queene, The, 7
Failure, 22
Fair God, The, 246
Fairies
of Pesth, The, 240
Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, 237
Fairy, The, 239 et seq.
Faith Healer, The, 306
Fall of the House
of Usher, The, 295
Melody, A, 97
Faraway
Faust, 143, 175
Feathertop, 152, 156
with the
Penn,
George
M., Man
Shadow,
The, 122
Fiction
of the Irish Celts, 243
Field, Eugene, 141
Daniel
and
the Devil, 141
Eel-King, The, 233
Holy Cross, The, 181
Moon
Lady, The, 233
Mother
in Paradise,
The, 213
Pagan Seal-wife, The, 233
Werewolf, The, 169, 172
Finch, Lucine, Butterfly,The, 307
in the Moon,
First Men
The, 264
and
His
Fisherman
Soul, The, 134,
153. 236
Faerie

Fisk, Isabel Howe, 290


Flaireurs,64
Flower
of Silence, The, 273

Index

Fiowering of the Strange Orchid, The,


62, 164, 273

Flying Dutchman, The, 187


Pogazzaro, Antonio, 66

Ghost Moth, The, 290


Ghost
Brimpson,
of Miser

The, 83

Ghosts,

Augusta,

57,

Ghost

59

57

Four-fifteenExpress, The, 86
Dimension, The, 256
Fox, John, Jr., 226
France, Anatole, 63
Amyous and Celestine,63
Foiirth

Isle of the Penguins,

"

Revolt

of

the

The, 63

Angels, The,

220

ScholasHcus, 63

Frankenstein,

17,

14,

34

Franklin," Andrew,
"

at Point
of Rock, The, 83
Ghost-children, 287 et seq.

Ghost

Putois, 63

Undine,

Ghost, The, 60

Juggler of Notre Dame, The, 63


Mass
of Shadows, The, 63

Henri

176
Jew, The, 176
Wilkins, 78

Wandering

Freeman,
Mary
Melody, 97
Faraway
Hall
The, 79, 260
Bedroom,
the Wall, The, 78,
Shadows
on
104,

99,

226

Gothic,

Tyranny

of

Market, 148
Charles

of Ghosts,

Garments

The,
92

Gods,

200

The,

200

Gods
Gods

et seq.

242
and

Fighting Men, 244


of Pegana, 245
of the Mountains, The,

Gaston

Gods

Gates

Godwin,

de Blondeville,19
Ajar, The, 210
Gates Between, The, 210
Gates
Beyond, The, 210
Gautier, Th6ophile, 62
Morte
La
Amoreuse, 62, 163
Foot, The, 62
Mummy's
Romance
of the Mummy,
The,

William

Heaven,
German

244,

303

William, 35, 182


St. Leon, 35, 36
162
Goethe,
133,
Die

Braut

von

Faust, 143,

Gogol, 68
Cloak, The,

Corinth,

162

"

175
68

Gothic

62
General

W., 307
The, 307

Laugh,

Last

200

the Dark,

seq.

Gnoles, 247
Gnomes,
347
Goblin

World,

Shadow

et

Ghouls, 158
Giaour, The, 160
Gigantism, 36
Gilmore, Inez Haynes, 294
Angel Island, 294
Glamour
of the Snow, The, 231
Glanville, Joseph, 191
Third, The,
Glasgow, Ellen, Shadowy

Goddard,

"

et seq.

81

The, 157
of Supreme Moments,
GlitteringGate, The, 221, 222
of Hosier's
Glover, Richard, Ballad
Ghost, 89

Hamlin, 69, 76,

18

Ghosts, Modem,

203
Glass

Freud, 79
Friar's
Tale, The, 140
Fu Manchu
Stones,
Furnished
The, 60, loi
Room,
of the, 256
Future, Magic Views

Garland,

61,

Eighty-Third, The, 61, 281


Louquier's Third Act, 61
On the Stairs,83, 114, 122

of the White Tiger, 291


Ghost
Ship, The, ill, 293
Ghost
of Futurity, 1 14
of Jack, The, no
Ghost
Ghost
Touch, The, loi, 103
Ghostly Doubles, 119
Ghostly Odor, 100
Ghostly Perfume, loi
Ghostly Psychology, 106
Ghostly Sounds, 97 et seq.

FouquS,

'"

H., 202
Gerould, Gordon
The, 202
Dead,
Grateful
FuUerton,
Katherine
Gerould,
71, 104

Saint, The, 66
Sinner, The, 66
Woman,
The, 66, 194, 300
Folk-lore, 73
L., 266
Ford, James
Forest Lovers, 149
Forsaken
Merman,
The, 155, 233
Is the Life, 62, 78, 162
For the Blood

"

317

Booth

Enters

et seq.
Romance,
Granville, Charles, 179

Plaint

217

Romanticism,

into

67

The, 179

of the Wandering

Jew,

Index

3i8
God

Great

Stone

Greek

and

144,

121,

213

Stories,

Ghost

Roman

Heaven,

in

Lovers

The, 247
of Sardis, The, 262

Pan,

Great

Nathaniel:

Hawthorne,

of the Beautiful, The, 287

Artist
202

The, 185, 270


The,
Romance,

Birthmark,

Gregory the Great, Dialogues, 202


Gregory, Lady, 229, 234, 237, 240,

Blithedale

188,

199

285
and

Gods

Grey Guest, The, 94,

Dr.

184, 252

282

49

Mysteries,

of Seven Gables, The, 158


Howe's
Masquerade, 122
IntelligenceOffice, The, 265
House

Main
Marble

Pictures, 121
Rappacini's Daughter, 252, 272
Scarlet
Select

P., Spider's Eye, The^

Hale, Lucretia
62, 274
The, 79, 260
Hall Bedroom,
Hall of Eblis, The, 8
Hamlet, 18, 118, 144
The, 61
Hand,
Hannele, 218
Prince,

Hardy,

Thomas:

Return
Tess

Virtuoso's

Young
Heam,

Tree, 150
The, 225

the Greenwood

Brown,

151

Lafcadio, i, 77
I,
Interpretations of Literature,

Ftre, The, 231


283
221,
and
Earth, 221
Heaven
Heijermans, 176
Hellas, 176
Henry, O., Furnished

Arm,

Sociable

Ghost, The,

60,

III

Harris, Joel Chandler, 74, 226


Remus
Tales, 232,
Uncle
Amazonian
Charles
F.,
Hart,
Myths, 232

Hartley, Randolph,

Black

235
toise
Tor-

Patch,

The, 25s
Haunted
Hotel, The, 89, 100
Haunted
House, The, 171
Haunted
Island, A, ii\
Haunted
Subalterns, The, 138
the Haunted, The, 60,
and
Haunters
78, 188, 299

Carl, 282
Singing, The,

282

Gerhardt
:
Hauptmann,
Hannele, 218
Sunken
Bell, The, 158
Hawkesworth, John, 70, 190
Transmigration of a Soul, 190
Hawthorne, Julian, 121

Room,

The,

lOI

There, loi,
Heretic, The, 207
Heritage, The, 94
Here

Are

Collection, A,tj8

Goodman

Heaven,

Harper, Olive,

Dead

150,

143,

77
Heath

The, 238

Withered

Hauptmann,

Fdton,

Septimius

of the Native, The, 150


143
of the D' Urhervilles,

Under

Letter, The, 152


Party, A, 178

183, 252

286

Happy

Street, 152
Faun, The, 57

Prophetic

193

Ayesha, 183, 193


She, 183

Pfaal,

156

Feathertop, 152,

Mannering,. 150
Gypsy Christ, The, 181

Hans

183,

184

49

Guy

Hag, The, 148


Haggard, Rider, 183,

The,

Romance,

DoUiver

Grosse, Marquis,
Horrid

Railroad, The, 213


Heidigger's Experiment,

Celestial

243
of Muirthemne,
Fighting Men, 243

Cuchulain

and

Herodotus,
Heroes, 242
Heroine,

107

166

The, 49, 50

Herrick, Robert, Hag, The, 148


Hewlett, Maurice, Forest Lovers, 149
Heywood, Eliza, Lasselia,42
His
Unquiet Ghost, 83
Campbell, The,
History of Duncan
255

History of Jack Smith, or the CasUe


of St. Donats, 20
Hoax
Ghosts, 82
Hodder, Reginald, Vampire, The,
68, 163

Hoffmann, David,
Hoffmann,
182,

190,

E.

T.

181

A.,

199

Doppelgdnger,58

51,

59,

69,

Index
Hoffman,

E.

T. A.

Elixiire

des

(Continued)
Teufels, 58

Kater

Murr, 58
Magnetizeur, 58
Hogg, James:
Brownie
of Bodbeck, 26, 38
Confessions
of a
Justified
Sinner, 29
Hunt

bfEildon, The, 26,

27, 30,

319

Strange Land, 96,

In

No

In

the Dark,

In

the House

of Suddoo, 146

Inferno, 144
Insanity and

the

Supernatural, 69,

299

Insanity in Gothic Fiction, 35


IntelligenceOffice,The, 265
Interior,64

et seq.

Interpretations of Literature, i, 77

32

of Fife, The, 148


Wool-gatherer, The,
23,
Witch

Intricate
29,

30.32

Holmes,

Oliver

Elsie

Wendell,

Ven-

170

ner,

Holy Cross, The, 181


Horrid
Mysteries, 49
Horsley-Curties, T. J., 9
Ancient

Records

St. Oswyth,

or

House

Abbey of

and

269

95,

62

Tom

no,

226

Walkei, The,

Van

Winkle,

246

Specter Bridegroom,

The,

83,

no

290

the Alhambra,
226
Moreau,
The, 271
Isle of the Penguins, The, 63
Italian, The, 48
Ivan, the Fool, 68, 138, 144
Ivory Gate, The, 122
In the Track
of the Wandering Jew,
178
Tales

Island

Gables, The, 158


Dean, 76
Leatherwood
God, The, 310
William

Country,

89
Rip

the Styx, The, 112, 216

Undiscovered

The,

Eye, The,
Irving, Washington,

of

of Seven

Howells,

Man,

Invisible

Specters,

Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The,

the

9, 12, 21, 32, 42,43


the House
or

on

119
Invisible

140

Fitz-Auburne, 25, 38
Hound
of the Baskervilles, The,
Hound
of Heaven, The, 283
House
of Judgment, The, 214
House
of Souls, The, 271
House-boat

of

Personality

Devil

Ethelwina,

of

of Dr.

The,

267

200,
Howe's

Masquerade,

Human,

122

Jacobs,

Chord, The, 275

Personality, 202

Human
Humorous

Ghosts, no
Leigh, 105
Hunt
ofEildon, The, 26, 27, 30, 32
Henry, 73, 252
Huxley, Thomas
Dr., Paudeen
O'Kelley and
Hyde,
the Weasel, 237
Hunt,

W.
W., Monkey's Paw, The,
98, 253
James, Henry:
Jolly Corner, The, 122
Turn
of the Screw, The, 86, 91,
'-

109

A., Legends
Janvier, Thomas
City of Mexico, 226'
Jealousy of Ghosts, 117
The

Jerome, Jerome

Ibsen, Henrikj 35, 42


Brand, 65
and
Galilean, 42, 66
Emperor
Lady from the Sea, The, 66
Master

Builder,

35,

66

Pretenders, The, 65
66
Rosmersholm,

Vikings of Helgeland, The, 65


and Her Hour
of Vision,

Lomond

207
Immortal

Gymnasts,

In

Castle

Perilous,

In

Mr.

Eberdeen's

The, 197
118

House,

124

of the

Maid, 282
K., Passing of the
Third
Floor Back, The, 305
Jewel
of Seven Stars, The, 191, 274
Jigar-Khor, The, 165
John
Inglesant, 87, 98
Eberdeen's
Johnson, Arthur, In Mr.
House, 124
Johnston, Mary, Witch, The, 150
Jolly Corner, The, 122
Joyzelle,64
Jiidgment of God, The, 234
The, 63
Juggler of Notre Dame,
Jules Le
Vallon, 194
Julius CcEsar, 18, 84
Jeanne,

Ida

212

208

Index

320
Jungle Tales,

Cittd, Morta,

La

232

66, 299
the Sea, The, 66

Lady from
K

La

Horla, 61, 95

The, 188
of the White Worm,
Lais, 7
Lamia, 162
Morte
La
Amoreuse,
62, 163
Land
of Darkness, The, 212
Land
of Heart's Desire, The, 65, 240,
306
Lang, Andrew,
118, 188, 242
Lair

Kaffir Tales, 232


Kater
Murr, 58
Keats, John, 148
La Belle, Dame

Merci, 148

sans

Lamia, 162
Keeping His Promise, 98
Kelpie, The, 155
Kennedy, Charles Rann,
the House,

Patrick,

Kennedy,

Servant

in

In

Bardic
Fiction

of the
Kentucky's Ghost,

0/ Ireland,
Irish

243

Ghost

Last

Celts,243

147

Kingdom

Come, 282, 306


176
King Hunger, 207, 308
Kin^sley,Charles, Water Babies, 240
53,

71,

99,

Soul

104,

the

Passage,

120

Boy, The, 195


Bubble
Well Road, 138
Courting of Dinah
Shadd, The,
152

Dog

Harvey,

In

the

The, 291

Subalterns, The, 138


House
of Suddoo, 146

Jungle Tales, 232


Last of the Stories,The,
Mark

of the

Beast,

197, 215

The,

100,

167
Phantom

Swept

Rickshaw, The, 88,


and

Garnished,

94,

94

of a

Paradise,

207

Soul

in

Paradise,

207

Life Elysian, The, 207


the Mists, 208
Through
Vagrom Spirit, The, 207
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The, 89
Legend of Sharp, i4, 134

Leprechauns,

239

Letters from

Living

Dead

Man,

207

Le

Vampire, 159
Lewis, Arthur, 242
London
Fairy Tales, 242
Lewis, Mary
L., Stranger than

282,

288

in

James:
Astral
An, 207
Bridegroom,
Car of Phcebus, The, 207
Heretic, The, 207
Leaves
from the Autobiography

Brushwood

Haunted

215

Lee, Robert

180

of

104,

Influences, 54 et seq.
Latham,
Francis, Midnight Bell, 49
Laughing Gas, 278
"031 of the Brown
Rosary, The, 148
Leatherwood
God, The, 310
Leaves
from the Autobiography of a

Kingemann,

the End

The,

Harmony,

Later

Kinetoscope of Time, The, 256


King, Basil, 203
Old Lady Pingree, 203
King Lear, 13

At

in

Laugh, The, 307


of the Stories, The, 197,

Last

199

Kipling, Rudyard,

the Deathless, 188

201

Last

Kerfol, 290
Khaled, 62, 70,

Perilous,118

Lasselia, 42

243

Stories

Castle

St. Germain,

The, 66, 305

tion,
Fic-

207

Lewis, Matthew

'

Gregory (' Monk

")
,

They, 84, 93, 288


Kittredge, George Lyman,
Arthur

and

Gorlogon,

14.
30,

Knock!

Knock!

Belle

Dame

Monk,

30

Specter, The, 53
The, 12, 16,

22,

24,

26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37, 177


Ltebgeber Schappe, 122
Knock!

Frederick
Kummer,
Coming, The, 281
Kundry, 181

Le

CasUe

224

Kleist,59
Kloslerheim, 56

16, 77

sans

Life

68

Arnold, Second

Merd,

148

after

Death, 209 et seq.


Lifted Veil, The, 257
lAgeia, 123, 191
Likely Story, 4, 287
Lindsay, Nicholas
Vachell, General.
William
Booth
Enters
into Heaven,
217
Little Crow

of Paradise, The,

234

Index

Little

Gray Ghost, The, n8


Mermaid, The, 155, 176, 233
Little Pilgrim in the Unseen, The, 212
Litae
White Bird, The, 240
mony,
Lloyd, N. M., Last Ghost in HarLittle

The, 104,201

Locke, Edward,

Case

0/ Becky, The,

305

Lodge, Sir Oliver, 7^


Raymond, or lAfeand
London
Fairy Tales, 242
London, Jack:
Scarlet Plague, The,

Death,

75

321

Magic Skin, The, 60


Magnetiseur, 58
The, 155
Maighdeanmhara,
Main
Street,152
and
Man
Superman, 217
in Black, The, 137
Man
Man
from the Gods, The, 121
Man
Overboard, 97
Man

with

Man

Whom

262

Man

Rover, The, 264


Long Chamber, The, 118
Looking Backward,
189, 262
Los Amigos
Fiasco, The, 187, 270
Loss
of Breath, The, 74
No.

the

Pigeons, The, 218


in
been
Fairyland,

Bottle, The, 253


The,
Faun,
57
Marie
de France, 30, 118
Bisclaveret, 30, 168
120
Markheim,
Mark
the
Beast, The; 100, 167
of
Christopher, 27, 153
Marlowe,
Doctor
Faustus, 15, 143
Marsh, Richard, Beetle, The, 290
Martian, The, 196, 207, 264
Mass
of Shadows, The, 63
Master
Builder, The, 35, 66
Master
Christian, The, 309
Mather,
Cotton, 130
Brander:
Matthews,
in

found

Marble

Act, 61
Philter, The, 267
Lovers
in Heaven,
121, 144, 213
Lowell, James
Russell, Fable
for
Critics,A, 57
Lucas,
Charles,
History
of Jack
Smith, or the Castle of St. Donats,
The, 20
Lycanthrope, The, 39
Lytton, Edward
George, Earle Lytton
Bulwer-Lytton, ist baron, 60
Love

Gown

Dream

of

Primer

Macbeth,
Maclien,

258,

Babington,

18, 98, 153, 295


Arthur,
52, ;o,

247.
250.
Bowmen

79,

300, 301
and
Others, The,

no

House

of Dreams, The,
of Souls, The,

117,

Three

Mad,
Mad

79
271

God

Pan, 139
Impostors, The, 247, 869

61

Lady, The,

286

Madness, 61
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 6, 42, 64, 299
BUnd,
The, 64, 298
Blue-bird, The, 64, 278, 289,
306
Interior, 64
Intruder, The, 64, 304
Joyzelle,64
Magic, 306
Magic Shadow, The, 296
"

Albtgenses,
168, 288

204,

The, 288
Monstrance,
Hand,
The, 247.
the Greai

Japanese

Imaginary

graphy,
Geo-

9, 17, 38,

59. 182

Red

Seeing

the

A, 181, 216
Rival
Ghosts, 112
-Maturin, Charles Robert,

282

Hill

of

The, 79
Ambassador,
Kinetoscope of Time, The, 256

Thomas

230,

The, 241

Third

Macaulay,

122

TreesLoved, The,

had

Who

MS.

62

4g,

Louquier's

The,

Shadow,
the

272
with
Man

Star

Lot

The,

9,

11,

94,

the Wanderer,
8, 10,
26, 36, 41, 44, 138
Maupassant, Guy de, 60, 69, 299
Cocotte, 61
Coward,
The, 61
Ghost, The, 60
Hand,
The, 61
La
Horla, 61, 95
Mad, 61
Madness, 61
Tress, The, 61
Wolf, The, 172

Melmoth,

12, 24,

McDonald,

George,

Portent, The,

266

McLeod,

Fiona:

Dark
'"

Nameless

One, The, 155


Adventure, The, 248
Judgment of God, The, 234

Divine

Index

322

{Continued)

Fiona

McLeod,
Sin

Water

Supematuralism,

286

Well

End,

The,

World,

The,

World's

the

Wood

8, 10,

the

Metempsychosis, 180 et
287, 291
Metzengerstein,

Mosen,

Julius, 176

Mother

in

Paradise, The, 213


Appearance, 113
Mr.
Isaacs, 37, 71
Mrs.
Veal, 205
Mummy's
Foot, The, 62
Tale, The, no
Mummy's
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, 225
Myers, Human
Personality, 202
Mysteries of Udolpho, The, 9, 48
Mysterious Mother, The, 53
Mysterious Stranger, The, 142
Mysterious Warnings, 49
and
in
Mystery
Mystification
Gothicism, 43
Mystery of Joseph Laguedem,
The,
181,195
Myths and Legends of Our Land, 187

I2,

Motives

26, 36, 41, 44, 138

Toe

beyond

236

Meredith, George, 71, 127


Shaving of Shagpat, The, 71
Merlin, 145
Mermaid, The, 234
Mermaid, The, 306
Merman
and
the Seraph, The, 234
Meroe, 145
Mesmeric
Revelations,266
Messenger, The, 88
Metamorphoses, 145

Middle

at

236

etseq.

Meg Merrilies,150
Meinhold, 56
Melmoih
Recondite, 59
Melmoth, the Wanderer,
24,

Isle,

Wondrous

The, 23.6

Eater, The, 138

Mechanistic

the

of

seq.

of the Right Foot, The,

61,92

Middleton, Jessie Adelaide, 92


Ghost with Half a Face, The,
Middleton, Richard, iii, 288
Coffin Merchant, The, 254

for Ghost

92
N

-"

Ghost

Ship, The,

Nathan,

11, 293

Passing ofEdward, The, 99, 288


Midnight Beh, 49
Midsummer
Night's Dream, A, 64
Milne-Home, Mary Pamela, Anansi Stortes, 232
Milton, John, 27, 133, 239
Comus,
215
Mtne

Host

and

Miracle, The,
Miracle
Man,
Miss

148
Lost, 144,
the

209,

Bet the Devil


Your
Head,
Accelerator,The, 286
New
Arabian
Nights, The, 70
Night at an Inn, A, 244, 303
Night Call, The, 83
Nightingale and the Rose, The,

211,

Witch, 148

Nightmare Abbey,

254

Norris, Frank,
Brute, 167

Ghost, The, 62
Mitchell, J. A., Amos
Judd, 40, 257
Molnar, Fernac, Devil, The, 138
Monastery, The, 225
Monk, The, 12, 16, 22, 24, 26, 27, 30,
37.

140

235,

293

The, 306
Mehitabel's
Son, 63, 68, 85, 287

35.

tery,
Mys-

New

Mistaken

33.

Eternal

Never

7,

Paradise

George Jean,

The, 306
Neckan, The, 155, 233
Nemesis
of Fire, A, 98

51
Vandover

and

the

Northanger Abbey, 47, 51


Notch
the Axe, The, 89, 188
on
Noyes, Alfred, Creation,277
Nyria, 207

177

Monkey's Paw, The, 98


Monstrance, The, 288
William
Moody,
Vaughn,
Faith
Healer, The, 306
Moon
Lady, The, 233
Moon
Madness, 139, 231
Moore, George, Brook Kerith, The,
310

Morella, 123, 190


Morris, WiUiam, 236,

O'Brien, Fitz-James, 61
Diamond
Lens, The, 274

"

"

What

Was

It?

Mystery,

61,96
Occult

Magazine,

Occurrence

at

The, 163
Owl

Creek

Bridge.

The, 275
Ode
250

the

on

the Popular Supentitions of


Highlands, 74

Index

O'Donnell, Elliot,88,

Old
Old

Clothes, 124, 194


English Baron, The,

Old

Fires

Old
Old
Old

Passing of Edward, The, 99,


Floor
Passing of the Third

no

Tale, The,
Mummy's
Werewolves, 170

323

no

The, 66, 303


Crime, The, 242

16, 19, 40

Patience

ProfitableGhosts, 154
Lady Mary, 211
Men
of the Twilight, The, 234

Paudeen

Tale, no,

145

Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret:


Beleaguered City, The, 211
Land
of Darkness, The, 212
Little

The,
Old

Mary,

Door,

The,

Portrait, The,
On

Certain

of
Society,221

Proceedings

Psychical
at
the
Knocking
Macbeth, 295
On the Stairs,61, 114,
Open Door, The, 211
Origin of Individual

the

the

in

Gate

122

Tales,

Gothic

290
Ghost

of

Witch, The,

Pit

226

of

The,

32,

134
the

The, 253
Jew, The,

Wandering

179

Pain, Barry, 53, 79, 157


Blue
Roses, 268
Celestial Grocery, The, 265, 300
Exchange, The, 153, 156, 197
Glass
Moments,
of Supreme

Planche, J. R.,

160

the Bride
of the
or
Vampire,
Isles, 160
Plattner
Case, The, 260
and
the natural,
SuperPlays of the Natural
208

The, 157
Philter, The, 267
Moon
Madness,
139, 231
Undying Thing, The, 271
Wrong Elixir, The, 186
Zero, 257
of
Bigelow, Elixir
Paine, Albert
Youth, The, 186
Pair
of Hands, A, 103, 288
tute,
SubstiGeorgia Wood,
Panghome,
Love

The, 88
Lost, 144, 209,

211,

215

Pliny, 72
Poe, Edgar Allan, 58, 69,
Berenice, 62
Bon

Bon,

Descent

The, 231,
Devil

41,
into

253
in the

95
the

252,

Francis,

Borderland,

The,

124

M., Mysterious

ings,
Warn-

299

Maelstrom,

Belfry, The,

141

Eleonora, 103
Facts

in the Case

The, 266
mar.
Fall
of the

House

of M.

Walde-

of Usher,

The, 295

Parsifal, l8l

49

226

Grey,

the Pendulum,

and

Plaint

Seal-wife, The, 233

151,

of Dorian

60, 121,

Parsons, Mrs.

The,

Brimpson,

Miser

83
Picture

Parsons,

the Mist, 226

of

Children

Walk, 103
Oval Portrait, The, 58
Ovid, 166
Owl's Ear, The, 62

Paradise

Hound,

Heath

Little

Another

Nelson,

mantic
Ro-

Movement,
41
E
den,
83
Phillpotts,

Last

Thomas

202,

145,

no,

Phantoms, 68
Lyon, 41
Phelps, William
Beginnings of the English

168

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur,

Pagan
Page,

Tale,

Date
Palm, 63
Ibbetson, 186, 196, 206, 300
Peter Pan, 240, 306
189
Peter
Rugg, the Missing Man,
Phantom
Rickshaw, The, 88, 94

13 et seq.
Our

145

Wives'

Old

Peter

211

On

237

293
Antoine's
Phe

211

Research

Weasel,

The, 234

298

211,

the

Love, Nightmare
Peacock, Thomas
Abbey, 51
dise,
of ParaPearce, J. H., Little Crow

Unseen,

the

Worth, 197, 207


O'Kelley and

Peele, George,

212

Lady

Open

in

Pilgrim

Back,

Passionate

and

Wives'

288

Pfaal, 286
Ligeia, 123, 191
Loss
of Breath, 74
in a Bottle,253
Found
MS.
Hans

Index

324

Revelations, 266

Mesmeric

Metzengerstein, 287,
Morella,
Bet

Never

(Continued)

Allen

Poe, Edgar

190
123,
the Devil

Radcliffe, Anne,

291

45,
Your

Head,

140

Portrait, The, 58
the
Pendulum,

Oval
Pit

The,

and

Pomponius
Portent, The,

Romance,

Portrait,The, 211
Powell, J. W., 232
Pretender, The, 65
Primer
of Imaginary

9,

of the Castle, The,


A, 45,
Romance,

50,

Sicilian
301

The, 46

Rappacini's Daughter,

The,

Geography,

Debts, 146

Red

Hand,

Prince, Morton,

Red

305

of

Personality,

305,

of India, The, 179


Proby, W. C, Spirit of

Prince

the

Castle,

121

and

I, 121, 258
Psychic Invasion, A, io6

Prue

Psychical Research,

272

73,

122

The, 247

Ranrahan, i86, 243


Reeve, Clara, 16
Old
English Baron,

The,

16,

19,40

The, 40

Prophetic Pictures,

252,

Death, 75
Readjustment, 107
Real Ghost
Stories,282
Rebellious
Heroine, The, 197
in
necticut,
ConCarnival
Recent
of Crime

39

Red

Disassociation

44

Raleigh, Sir Walter, English Novel,

The, 181, 216


Primitive
Culture, 227

The,

44,

Raven, The, 56
Raymond,
or
Life and

266

in Gothic

Portents

43,

de Blondeville, 19
Gaston
Italian, The, 48
Mysteries of Udolpho, The,
Romance

Meia.,166

16, 23,

48

253

Raven, The, 56
Tale of the Ragged Mountains,
A, 58, 190
William
Wilson, 58, 120
Polidior, Vampyre, The, 160

9,

46, 71, 82

Regeneration of Lord Ernie, The, 230


Reineche
Fztchs,213
Novels,
Religion in Recent American
310
Remarkable

199

et seq.

of the House-boat, The, 112,


187,216
Pushkin, Alexander, Queen of Spades,
The, 69
Putois, 63
Pyle, Howard, Evil Eye, The, 152

Pursuit

Case

of Davidson's

Eyes,

The, 256
Return, The, 123, 198
Return
of Peter Grimm, The, 201, 298
Return
of the Native, The, 150
Revolt, of the Angels, The, 220

Reynard
Reynard

the

Fox,

the

Fox,

231
in

South

Africa,

232
Willow

Queen Mab, 176


Queen of Hearts, The, 107, 113
Queen of Sheba, The, 122
Queen of Spades, The, 69
Quiller-Couch, A. T., 154
Magic Shadow, The, 296
Mystery of Joseph Laguedem,
The,

181, 195

Old

Fires

and

ProfitableGhosts,

154
Pair

of Hands,
of

Roll-call
107

Quinet, Edgar, 176

A,
the

103,

288

Reef,

The,

Benrimo

Harrison,
Tree, The, 306
Leihgeber
Paul,
Richter, Jean
Schappe, 122
Rideout, Henry, Ghost of the White
Tiger, The, 291
Riders
to the Sea, 10, 304
Riding to Lithend, 152
Winkle, 246
Rip Van
Rival
Ghosts, 112
Roche, Regina Maria, 10, 43, 45, 50
Clermont, 45, 49
Chronicles, 175
Roger of Wendover's
Rohmer, Sax, 146
Flower
of Silence, The, 273
Fu-Manchu
Stories, 253, 268,
Rhodes,

270, 272

and

Index

Roll-call of the Reef, The, 107


Romance

325

Secret

Worship,

105,

117,

137

Castle, The, 40
of
Seeing the Great God Pan, 139
the
Select Party, ^,178
Romance
62
The,
of
Mummy,
Romance
Two
Worlds,
Selfish Giant, The, 246
of
A, 213
Romantic
Movement,
Sensitives, 298
55
Romantic
and
Reduplication
chology,Septimius Felton, 143, 150, 183, 252
PsyServant
in the House,
The, 66, 305
122
Shadow
World,
The,
200
Rosary, The, 306
the Wall, The, 78, 99,
Shadows
on
66
Rosmersholm,
226
Rossetti, Christina, Goblin
Market,
104,
Shadowy Third, The, 203
148
Sister
Shakespeare,
Rossetti, Dante
Gabriel,
13, 18, 56, 84, 115, 119
Hamlet, 18, 118, 144
Helen, 67, 153
Julius
CcBsar, 18, 84
Milton, Unwritten
Royle, Edward
Lear,
Law, The, 306
King
13
Russian
Macbeth, 17, 98, 152, 153, 295
Literature, 67
Midsummer
Night's Dream,
64
Tempest, The, 64
St. Germain, the Deathless, 188
Sharp, William, 65, 285
St. Irvyne, the Rosicrucian, 17, 35, 36
Gypsy
Christ, The, 181
St. Leon, 35, 36
Vistas, 65, 278
St. Oswyth, 12
Shaving of Shagpat, The, 71
and
Man
Tales
Shaw,
George,
of
George Bernard,
Saintsbury,
Mystery, 48
Superman,
217, 306
She, 183
Saint, The, 66
Till I Come,
Salalhiel, or Tarry Thou
Sheldon, Edward:
The, 234
Mermaid,
179
Shell of Sense, The, 85, 212
Sancta
Susanna,
307
Satire on
Gothicism, 47 et seq.
Shelley, Mary, 14
Satirical
Frankenstein, 14, 17, 34
Supernaturalism, 294
Scarlet Letter, The, 152
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 17, 35, 176,
the

Scarlet

Plague, The, 262


Scenery, Gothic, 10
Schiller, Robbers, The, 16
Schlegel, 176
Scholasticus, 63
Science, Gothic, 33
Science, Supernatural, 251 et seq.
Scott, Sir Walter, 38, 56, 115, 225,
246
Betrothed, The, 225
Bride
The, 38
of Lammermoor,
Guy
Mannering,
150
Monastery,
The, 225
My

Aunt

Margaret's

Mirror,

225

Talisman,

The,

134,

146, 147,

225

Drovers, The, 151, 225


Woodstock, 225
Screaming Skull, The, 60, 89, 92
Sea
Fit, The, 230
Sea Lady,
The, 234
Second
Coming, The, 281
Two

Second
Secret

Wife, The, 122


of Goresthorpe Grange, The,

79

180, 182
Unfinished
of an
Fragment
Drama, 48
Hellas, 176
Queen Mab, 176
the
St.
Rosicrucian,
Irvyne,
17, 35. 36
Witch
of Atlas, The, 148
Wandering Jew, The, 1 76
Zastrozzi, 10, 12
Shorthouse, J. H. :
Countess
Eve, 138
John
Inglesant, 66, 87, 98
Shropshire Folk Tales, 291
Sicilian
A, 45, 50, 301
Romance,
Sidhe, The, 242
The, 114
Signal Man,
Silence, 293
SHvani, Anita, 88, 207
Ahrinziman,
88, 183, 213
Silver Mirror, The, 259
Sin Eater, The, 138
Sinner, The, 66
Sister Helen, 67, 153
Skinner, C. M., 187

"

"

Index

326
Skinner, C.

Transferred Ghost, The, 63, 87,

(Continued)

M.

and
Myths
Legends of Our
Land, 187
Smale, Fred C, Afterwards, 102, 202
Merman
and
the
Smith, Benjamin,
Seraph, The, 234
Sociable
Ghost, The, iii

Sogno

Mattino

d'un

Primavera,

di

d'un

67. 152
Solomon,
Revealed

Tramonto

d'Autunno,

Simeon, Vision
in Sleep, 79

of

Love

Sorcerer, The, 145


Sorrows
of Satan, The, 136, 144
Soul of the Moor, The, 207
Soul on Fire, A, 193
Souls on Fifth, 123, 198, 215
Southey, Robert, Thalaba, 161
F. H., Ghost
Spearmen,
at Point
of
Rock, The, 83
Speck on the Lens, The, 255
Specter Bridegroom, The, 83, no
Spectral Mortgage, The, 63
Spencer, Herbert, 251
Spenser, Edmund,
239
Faerie
Queene, The, 7
Speranza (Lady WUde),
229, 240
Ancient
stitions
SuperLegends and
of Ireland, 229
Spider's Eye, The, 62, 274
Spirit of Turrettville,The, 23

Spiritualism, 73, 199 et seq.


Spoflford,Harriet
Prescott, 286
Mad
Lady, The, 286
Spring Recital, A, 208
Star, The, 264
Rover, The, 264
T., 74
Stephens, James, 219
Crock
of Gold, The, 241,

Demi-gods, The, 219,


Stevenson, Robert
Louis,
Bottle Imp, The, 70
Jekyll and

Markheim,

Mr.

Arabian

Stone

Spectral

The,

122,

243

The,

185

August, 209, 251, 308


Daughter of the Moor, The,
Sancta
Susanna, 307
Adventures

Strange

of

Phosnician, The,
Strange Cases of Dr.
254.

Phra,

304
the

188

Stanchion, The,

299

Strange Story, A, 90, 182


226
Stuart, Ruth
McEnery,
Styx River Anthology, The, 216
Subjective Ghosts, 83
Substitute, The, 88
Sue, Eugene, 176, 178
Wandering Jew, The, 176, 180
of the Proceedings
Suggested by Some
of the

Psychical

Research

Society,

283
Sunken

Bell, The, 158

Supernatural

in

Folk-tales,

233

et

seq.

Supernatural in Tragedy, The, 305


Supernatural Life, 174 et seq.
Supernatural Science, 251 et seq.
Sutton, Vida, Kingdom
Come, 282,

The, 290
35

246

221

70

Hyde,

Tale
120,

of Negative Gravity,A, 274, 286


of the Ragged Mountains, A,
58. 190

Tale

Tales

120

Nights, The,
Thrawn
Janet, 137
Stockton, Frank
R., 293

274, 286

Worm,

of Red Ranrahan, 186,


Story of Days to^Come, A, 262
Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham,

Swift, Dean,

268,305

Tale

White

306

Star

Great

of the

Lair
188

Swept and Garnished, 94, 282, 288


Synge, John, 10, 229, 240
Riders
to the Sea, 10, 304
Swanson,
Frederick, Ghost
Moth,

Stead, W.

New

Jewel

191,274

Stramm,

Song of Love
Triumphant,
The, 68
Songs from a Vagrom Spirit, 207
Song of the Wandering Jew, The, 176

Dr.

78, 92, 117, 180


78, 163, 188, 301
Stars, The,
of Seven

Stories

67, 300

Sogno

122

III,

Stoker, Bram,
Dracula,

70

of Sardis, The, 262

Mortgage, The, 63
of Negative Gravity, A,

of the Alhambra, 226


of Mystery, 48
Talisman, The, 134, 146,
Tarn
O'Shanter, 156
Tales

Tchekhov:

Monk, The, 69
Sleepyhead, 69
Ward
No. 6, 69
Black

147,

225

Index
Mysterious Stranger, The,

Gothic, 46
Temperament,
Tempest, The, 64
Temptation of the Clay, The, 231
Terror
of Blue John Gap, The, 272
Terror
of the Twins, The, 122, 192
Tess of the D' Urbervilles,
143
Thackeray, W. M., 55, 89
Fairy

Pantomime,

Notch

on

the

Two

188

Machine,
Tolstoi, Ivan,

Under

Undine,
of

Undying

221

100

Vampire, The, 159


Vampire, The, 68, 163
Vampire Bride, The, 159
of
Vampire, or the Bride

Vandover

122

Soul, The, 190

Tress, The, 61
Trilby, 267

Triumph of Night, The, 121


Tryst, The,i26,2ii
Turgeniev, Ivan, 68, 69, 163
Clara
Militch, 68, 162
Dream,
The, 68
Knock!

The, 306

the

Isles,

Vampires, 158 et seq.


Vampyre, The, 160

68

Law,

Upper Berth, The,


Usury, 198

245

Ivan, the Fool, 68, 138, 144

Knock!

68

Phantoms, 68
Song of Love Triumphant,
Turn

Country, The, 200, 267


Masterpiece, The, 60
Thing, The, 271

The, 159

They
Juliet Wilbur,
Tompkins,
That
Mourn, 85, 108
Tragedy, 42
Transfer, The, 164
Transferred Ghost, The, 63, 87, iii,

Knock!

57
Undiscovered
Unknown

The, 189, 260

Transmigration of

301

Tales, 232,' 235


the Greenwood
Tree, 150

Remus

Uncle

Unwritten

the Gods,

Time

The, 66,

Unburied,

and

116

Voices, 97
Culture, 227
Tylor, Primitive
of the Dark, The, 200
Tyranny

42

Angel, The,
Ticket-of-leave
Tieck, Ludwig, 56, 59

in

Two

Thrawn,
Janet, 137
Three
Impostors, The, 247, 269
Through the Mists, 207
Thurlow's
Christmas
Story, 121
E.
Thurston,
Temple, Passionate
The,
Crime,
242

Time

Drovers, The, 151, 225


Military Executions,

Two

Hour, The, 306


Hound
Francis,
The, 283
Ashley Horace, 42

Tragedy,

Crime

122

Twilight,268

Witching
Heaven,
Thomdike,

of

Carnival

Recent

Connecticut, The,

Thalaba, 161
Theal, Kaffir Tales, 232
Theodora, 103
They, 84, 93, 288
85, 108
They That Mourn,
That
in
Walk
They
Darkness, 136
Thomas,
Augustus, 306
Thompson,

142,

303

A, 240

Axe, A, 89,

327

Van

and

Dyke,

the Brute, 167

Henry,

Night Call, The,

83

Lerberghe, Charles,

Van

Flaireurs,

64
Vathek, 8, 17, 22, 25, 29, 33, 37, 70
Vendetta
of the Jungle, ^,168
200
Vera, the Medium,
Vergil, Culex, 290
Views
of Other
Planets, 263
Vikings of Helgeland, The, 65
Virie on the House, The, 90
Virtuoso's
Collection, The, 78
Vision
of Judgment, A, 214
Vision
of Judgment, A, 134
in Sleep, A,
Vision
of Love Revealed
79

Vistas, 65, 278


Heaton,
Verse, Mary
of the Screw, The, 86,fsi;1io^ The, 122, 192
'^^'
The,

Second

Wife,

'rwam,'Mark,
142

Yankee

Connecticut

Arthur's

Court, A,

Extracts

field's Visit

from
to

King

at

189, 262, 286

Captain
Heaven,

Storm-

201,

217

Wallace,
and

Edgar,

Another,

156

Bones,

Sanders,

Index

328

The,

God,

Fair

The, 256
of India, 179
Jew, The, 8, 175 et seq.
Jew, The, 176
Jew, The, 176
Jew, The, 176, 180
Jew, A Christmas
Carol,

Prince

Wandering
Wandering
Wandering
Wandering
Wandering

Remarkable

Letters

Man,

207,

Mother,

Time

185
Machine,

The,

189, 260

of Judgment, A, 214
of the Worlds, The, 263

Wh^n

the Sleeper Wakes,

262

Visit,The, 218,

Wonderful

from

Living

W.

Wentz,

The, 53

Fairy

Dead

221,

Y.

E., 239
in Celtic

Faith

Countries,

239

292

of the Wenuses, The, 263


War
of the Worlds, The, 263
Stuart
Ward, Elizabeth
Phelps,

Werewolf, The,

War

199,

166

et seq.

Werewolf, The, 169, 172


Werewolves,
170

Jessie Adelaide, 146


Magic, 146
Mummy's
Foot, The, 62

Weston,

290

My Death, The,
Gaies Ajar, The, 210
Day

of

Black

199

Elizabeth

Bisland,

Gates

Wetmore,

Gates

pelgdnger. The, 122


Weyman,
Stanley J.,

Between, The, 210


Beyond,
The, 210
Kentucky's Ghost, 199
Ward
No. 6, 69
Warning, The, 276
Water
Babies, The, 240
Ghost and Others, The, 112
Water
Water
Isle, The,
of the Wondrous
236
Waters

262

302

Mysterious
War

A,

Elvesham
,

The, 122,
Vision

Mr.

of the Late

Story

52,

lOI

of Davidson's

Case

The, 256
Sea Lady, The, 234
Star, The, 264
Story of Days to Come,

The, 6, 8,

16, 17, 25, 31, 32, 36, 40, 41,

in Fairyland,

Eyes,

War

of Otranto,

Been

Accelerator, The, 286


Case, The, 260

New

188, 309
Castle

Had

241

Plattner

The, 177
Jew, or the Travels
Wandering
of
Bareach, the Prolonged, The, 178
Wanderings of Cain, The, 118
Walpole, Horace, 6, 8, 11, 14, 71,
92,

Who

Man

Wallace, Lew, 179

of

Death, The,

Wharton, Edith, 53,


Afterwards, 302
Duchess

of Dr. Moreau, The,

271

121

Prayer,

at

The,

121,

303

Eyes, The, 297

Kerfol,290
Triumph of Night, The,

Wave,

Island

in

Man

Black, The, 137

62

The, 194
Webster, John, Duchess
of Malfi.,
The, 8, 166
Wedmore,
Frederick, Dream
of
Provence, A, 293
Well at the World's
End, The, 236
logy,
AnthoWells, Carolyn, Styx River
The, 216
Wells, H. G.:
Crystal Egg, The, 263
Days of the Comet, The, 264
Door
in the Wall, The, 258
Dream
A,
of Armageddon,
196, 262
First Men
in the Moon,
The,
264
Flowering of the Strange Orchid,
62, 164, 273
In the Days of the Cornet, 264
Invisible
Man,
The, 95, 269

Dop-

What

It?

121

Mystery, 61, 96
the Gods
When
Slept,63, 74
the Sleeper Wakes,
When
262
Whicher,
George Prisbee, Life and
Eliza
Romances
of Mrs.
Heywood, 42
White
Lady of Avenel, 225
White
People, The, 203, 298
White
The,
Hum,
Sleep of Auber
Was

121

Stephen French, Woman


from Yonder, The, 126, 187
Whitmore, E. C, 305
Supernatural in Tragedy, The,

Whitman,

305

Wieland, 35, 39
Wilde, Oscar, 32,
Fisherman
134. 153,

Happy

240, 249
and
His

Soul, The,

236

Prince, The, 238

Index

Oscar

wade,

(Continued)

House

of

Legend

329

Wood

Judgment,

The,

of Sharp,

-^

and

the

Woodstock,

214

World,

the

beyond

The,

Wool-gatherer,

134

The,

236

225
23,

30

29,

Nightingale
23s.

of

Picture

60,

121,

Seliish

Dorian

of

The,

Newbury,

Williams,

The,

Witch,

The,

Witch,

The,

Endor,

Gothic,

Intent

to

26

Wonderful

Men

Stories

the

of

of

Wisdom

149,

195,

266

of

Goodman

Young

The,

Twilight,

The,

Ranrahan,

Red

186,

the

The,

King,

Brown,

154

151

Steal,

et

Zangwill,

62,

66,

Walk

in

Zastrozzi,

17

seq.
257

Zofloya,
194,

Yonder,
Visit,

That

They

136

225

172

The,

Israel,

17

Darkness,

The,
145

seq.

306

Zero,

from

Desire,

306

340.

243

145

et

The,

Arm,
The,

Woman

154

Heart's

150

148
The,

Hour,

The,

The,
of

the

157

Witching

Woman,

148

The,

Prague,

Withered

143
and

Fires

234

The,

The,

Witches,

Wizard,

239

65,

seq.

The,

Fife,

of

the

of

Shadows,

Old
et

145

Edrrurndton,

Hazel,

248,

240,

The,

Cathleen,

154

151

Witch

237,

Twilight,

Curse

65,

Witch

226,

149

Atlas,

With

Celtic

"Land

of
of

B.,

"

of

of

226

86,

285

The,

King,

Witch

Witch

Heights,

W.

Yeats,

83

306

Witch

Witch

176

186

193

the

the

120

^,193

The,

Tree,
of

of

Song

The,

The,

Countess

Theodora,

Witch,

Jew,

Elixir,

Wuthering

Penwick:

Fire,

on

Wisdom

William,

284

Colton,

Frances
Soj4

62

159

58,

Blanche

WiUiams,

A,

Mummy,

Wandering

246

Cleaver,

Wilson,

Willow

with

Wrong

William

William

The,

Grey,

134

Giant,

Wilkinson,
William

Word

Wordsworth,

293

32,

Wolf,

The,

Rose,

The,

10,

300

The,

126,

187

218,

221,

302

17,

I54.,25i
Zola,

Emile,

252

28,

33,

37,

38,

53,

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