Literature of the occult ; a collection of critical essays
By: edited by Peter B. Messent.
Contributors: Messent, Peter B.
Series: Twentieth century views; A Spectrum book
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Occult fiction, English -- History and criticism; Occult fiction, American -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; Ghost stories -- History and criticism; Horror tales -- History and criticism; Supernatural in literature; Occultism in literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. 187-188.
Table of contents: title: Messent, P. Introduction.; title: Todorov, T. The uncanny and the marvellous.; title: Thompson, G. R. A dark Romanticism.; title: Varma, D. P. Quest of the numinous.; title: Varnado, S. L. The idea of the numinous in Gothic literature.; title: Lovecraft, H. P. The beating of black wings.; title: Kerr, H. Ghosts and Ghost-seeing.; title: Reed, J. R. The occult in later Victorian literature.; title: Scarborough, D. Modern ghosts.; title: Sullivan J. Green tea.; title: Hennelly, M. M., Jr. Dracula.; title: Shreffler, P. A. H. P. Lovecraft and an American literary tradition.; title: Murray, D. Anthropology, fiction, and the occult.