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Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories

by Joseph Lewis French
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783957388704
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Vero Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Vero Verlag
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 216
  • Original Price: USD 33.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 250 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthologies (multiple authors), Classics, and Thrillers / Suspense

The ghost story is as old as human speech, - and perhaps even antedates it. A naïve acceptance of the supernatural was unquestionably one of the primal attributes of human intelligence. The ghost story may thus quite conceivably be the first form of tale ever invented. It makes its appearance comparatively early in the annals of literature. Who that has read it is likely to forget Pliny\'s account in a letter to an intimate of an apparition shortly after death to a mutual acquaintance? Old books of tales and legends are full of the ghost story. It has persisted throughout the ages. It began to attain some real standing in literature, - to take its definite place, - a little more than a century ago. Like the apparition it embodies it had always been - and is still to-day even - more or less discredited. Mrs. Radcliffe gave it a new being and even a certain dignity in her \"Castle of Otranto\"; and after her came Sir Walter Scott who frankly surrendered to the power and charm of the theme. The line of succession has been continuous. The ghost has held his own with his human fellow in fiction, and his tale has been told with increasing skill as the art of the writer has developed. [...] Anthology of mystic stories, containing narratives from Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson and many more.

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