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The Haunting of Hill House: A Novel. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, published in 1959, follows Dr. John Montague, a supernatural investigator, who looks into Hill House and invites ...
This category groups authors past and present who have written one or more ghost stories. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. B.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ ˈ l ɛ f ən. j uː /; [1] [2] 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. [3]
This is perhaps why it remains the definitive haunted house story". [13] In 2016, in The Guardian, author Joanne Harris described the book as: "...not only the best haunted-house story ever written, but also a quiet subversion of the ingénue trope in horror fiction, with a nod to Sartre’s Huis Clos with its toxic menage a trois." [14]
Absolutely true stories about shadowy figures, moving objects, strange voices, and other things that go bump in the night. The post 12 Real Ghost Stories You Won’t Want to Read at Night appeared ...
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. New York: Routledge, 2018. O'Brian, Helen Conrad, and Julie Anne Stevens, ed. The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century: A Ghostly Genre. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Briggs, Julia, Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story. London: Faber, 1977.
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre.
James originally read the stories to friends and select students at Eton and Cambridge as Christmas Eve entertainments, and received wider attention when they were published in the collections Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost ...