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    The Ghost Story 1840-1920 : a cultural history. by Smith, Andrew, 1964-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Seeing the spectre: an economic theory of the ghost story; 2 Dickens's spectres: sight, money, and reading the ghost story; 3 Money and machines: Wilkie Collins's ghosts; 4 Love, money, and history: the female ghost story; 5 Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism; 6 Haunted houses and history: Henry James's Anglo-American ghosts; 7 Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter; 8 M.R. …”
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    Tales of troubled dead : ghost stories in cultural history / by Belsey, Catherine

    Published 2019
    Subjects: “…Ghost stories History and criticism.…”
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    Ghosts -- or the (nearly) invisible : spectral phenomena in literature and the media /

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Preface: Ghosts -- or the (Nearly) Invisible11(2) Medieval Ghosts: the Stories of the Monk of Byland 13(12) Maik Hildebrandt Speaking of Seeing Ghosts: Visions of the Supernatural in the Tales of Catherine Crowe 25(10) Ruth Heholt The Ghost of Oscar Wilde: Fictional Representations 35(10) Eleanor Dobson Ghostly Science or Scientific Ghosts: The Fourth Spatial Dimension in Children's Literature 45(12) Kati Voigt Carl Gustav lung and the Ghosts 57(14) Claudia Richter "They only see what they wanna see': Traumatised Ghosts and Ghost Story Conventions in The Sixth Sense and The Others 71(16) Desiree Kriesch At the Hollow, there was Magic' The Language of Kim Newman's Ghost Novel 87(4) Clausdirk Pollner Neil Gaiman's Ghost Children 91(16) Dominik Becher The Ghost as a Metaphor for Memory in the Irish Literary Psyche 107(8) Julia Kunz "I Know not who these Mute Folk Are" -- Ghostly Houses in Early Twentieth Century English and American Poetry 115(10) Sophie Thiele Haunting the Wide, White Page -- Ghosts in Antarctica 125(12) Johanna Grabow The Loa as Ghosts in Haitian Vodou 137(10) Julia Pfeifer From Cultural Ghosts to Literary Ghosts -- Humanisation of Chinese Ghosts in Chinese Zhiguai 147(14) Minwen Huang Mystic Motifs in Silver Age Poetry and Prose 161 Vera Shamina.…”
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    Haunted presence : the numinous in Gothic fiction / by Varnado, S. L., 1929-

    Published 1987
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    Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions. by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

    Published 2011
    Subjects: “…Ghost stories, American History and criticism.…”
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    Haunted Presence : the Numinous in Gothic Fiction. by Varnado, S. L.

    Published 2015
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    Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : theories of vision in Victorian literature and science / by Smajic, Srdjan, 1974-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Contextualizing the ghost story -- The rise of optical apparitions -- Inner vision and spiritual optics -- 'Betwixt ancient faith and modern incredulity' -- Visual learning : sight and Victorian epistemology -- Scopophilia and scopophobia : Poe's readerly flâneur --Stains, smears, and visual language in The moonstone -- Semiotics vs. encyclopedism : the case of Sherlock Holmes -- Detective fiction's uncanny -- Light, ether, and the invisible world -- Inner vision and occult detection : Le Fanu's Martin Hesselius -- Other dimensions, other worlds -- Psychic sleuths and soul doctors.…”
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    Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women / by Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

    Published 2008
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    Haunted presence : the numinous in Gothic fiction / by Varnado, S. L., 1929-

    Published 2015
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    A new companion to the Gothic /

    Published 2012
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    The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 / by Clery, E. J.

    Published 1995
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    British women short story writers : the new woman to now /

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Modernist women's ghost stories and the troubling of modernity /…”
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    Hong Kong horror cinema /

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…Performing (Comic) Abjection in the Hong Kong Ghost Story /…”
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