... metaphor or allegory in the story, a trait not typically tolerated or popular in other children's ghost stories of the time. Alcott's “Our Little Ghost,” published in Merry's Museum for Boys and Girls in . The Mock Ghost Story.
... ghost story, the somatic enjoyment of sharing an audience space with other warm bodies, and the period of the Christmas holidays is still acutely relevant to today's theatrical industry as the annual abundance of 'family-friendly ...
... history of the novel, and paying attention to those ghosts tells us as much about what they haunt as they tell us about themselves. This book is also a contribution, in a certain sense 22 A History of the Modern British Ghost Story.
... ghost had become a 'purposeless creature' and 'appears nobody knows why; he has no message to deliver, no secret crime to reveal, no appointment to keep, no treasure to disclose, no commissions to be ... ghost story addresses the 'abstract.
... GHOST STORY , by Rudyard Kipling As I came through the Desert thus it was— As I came through the Desert . The City of Dreadful Night . Somewhere in the Other World , where there are books and pic- tures ... GHOST STORY, by Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling. MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY As I came through the Desert thus it was- As I came through the Desert . -The City of Dreadful Night . OMEWHERE in the Other World , where SOME MEWHERE ink and plays there are books and pictures ...
... haunted , " replied Musgrave with visible pride in the ancestral ghost . " I only wish that I could convince you of the existence of the supernatural from my own personal experience . I always feel it to be the weak point in a ghost- story ...
... ghost might be seen as the projection of the ( living ) narrator's own psyche . ( All Henry James's ghost stories fall into this category . ) Nevertheless , they take external form and are described and seen as ' ghosts ' . I excluded ...
... story is the subject of John *Dryden's 'Sigismunda and Guiscardo', and of Robert Wilmot's *Tancred and Gismund. James *Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745) deals with a different ... Stories, 1882). The same dominance. 413. ghost. stories.
