Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women /
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.
Introduction: The unacknowledged tradition -- The ghost in the parlor : Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton -- Queer haunting spaces : Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie -- Ghosts of progress : Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton -- Familial ghosts : Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull -- Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.
American fiction
Supernatural in literature.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Ghost stories, American
Horror tales, American
Occultism in literature.