The Haunted dusk

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Contents: Washington Irving and the American Ghost Story • essay by G. Richard Thompson [as by G. R. Thompson ] Phantasms and Death in Poe's Fiction • essay by J. Gerald Kennedy Philanthropy and the Occult in the Fiction of Hawthorne, Brownson, and Melville • essay by Carolyn L. Karcher "I must have died at ten minutes past one": Posthumous Reverie in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "The Amber Gods" • essay by Barton Levi St. Armand Ghostly Rentals, Ghostly Purchases: Haunted Imaginations in James, Twain, and Bellamy • essay by Jay Martin James's Last Early Supernatural Tales: Hawthorne Demagnetized, Poe Depoetized • essay by Howard Kerr Psychology and the Psychic in W. D. Howell's "A Sleep and a Forgetting" • essay by Charles L. Crow and John W. Crowley "When Other Amusements Fail": Mark Twain and the Occult • essay by Alan Gribben Jack London: Up from Spiritualism • essay by Charles N. Watson, Jr. The Color of "The Damned Thing": The Occult as the Supersensational • essay by Cruce Stark

subjects: Occultisme dans la littérature,  Histoires de fantômes américaines,  American Ghost stories,  Roman américain,  History and criticism,  Amerikaans,  Histoire et critique,  Supernatural in literature,  Occultism in literature,  Fictie,  American fiction,  Surnaturel dans la littérature,  Het Bovennatuurlijke