Fantasmagoriana Collected Tales Of Ghosts

Author : Johann August Apel,Friedrich August Schulze,Johann Karl August Musäus
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:4064066382063

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"Fantasmagoriana – Collected Tales of the Dead" were the very ghost stories that inspired and gave rise to classics like Frankenstein and The Vampyre. Originally translated from German, these tales have retained their charm, chilling effect, horror and suspense until today. Contents: The Family Portraits The Fated Hour The Death's Head The Death-Bride The Storm The Spectre-Barber or, Dumb Love Excerpt: "It is generally believed that at this time of day no one puts any faith in ghosts and apparitions. Yet, on reflection, this opinion does not appear to me quite correct: for, without alluding to workmen in mines, and the inhabitants of mountainous countries,—the former of whom believe in spectres and hobgoblins presiding over concealed treasures, and the latter in apparitions and phantoms announcing either agreeable or unfortunate tidings,—may we not ask why amongst ourselves there are certain individuals who have a dread of passing through a church-yard after night-fall? Why others experience an involuntary shuddering at entering a church, or any other large uninhabited edifice, in the dark? And, in fine, why persons who are deservedly considered as possessing courage and good sense, dare not visit at night even places where they are certain of meeting with nothing they need dread from living beings? They are ever repeating, that the living are only to be dreaded; and yet fear night, because they believe, by tradition, that it is the time which phantoms choose for appearing to the inhabitants of the earth..."

Author : A.J. Day
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411652910

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Fantasmagoriana (Tales of the Dead) by A.J. Day Pdf

It was on a 'dark and stormy night', during the summer of 1816 that an eccentic group of English literati gathered at the Villa Diodati. The atmosphere at the Villa was charged by the violent streaks of lightening that licked at the mountain tops and split a black sky. As the wind outside whipped up the surface of lake Leman into a cauldron of waves the occupants of the Villa; Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Dr John Polidori, Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont, whipped themselves into a gothic frenzy with recitals of haunting poetry and ghost stories. The stories that they read came from a book, originally written in German, that had recently been translated into French. The book that they read from was called Fantasmagoriana. Fantasmagoriana has a unique place in literary history. This is the first full translation of the stories that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Dr John Polidori's The Vampyre.

Author : Johann Karl August Musäus,Johann August Apel,Friedrich August Schulze
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547780410

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Fantasmagoriana - Selected Tales of the Dead by Johann Karl August Musäus,Johann August Apel,Friedrich August Schulze Pdf

Good Press presents to you the meticulously edited collection of "Fantasmagoriana – Selected Tales of the Dead." These were the very ghost stories that inspired and gave rise to classics like Frankenstein and The Vampyre. Originally translated from German, these tales have retained their charm, chilling effect, horror and suspense until today. Contents: The Family Portraits The Fated Hour The Death's Head The Death-Bride The Storm The Spectre-Barber or, Dumb Love Excerpt: "It is generally believed that at this time of day no one puts any faith in ghosts and apparitions. Yet, on reflection, this opinion does not appear to me quite correct: for, without alluding to workmen in mines, and the inhabitants of mountainous countries,—the former of whom believe in spectres and hobgoblins presiding over concealed treasures, and the latter in apparitions and phantoms announcing either agreeable or unfortunate tidings,—may we not ask why amongst ourselves there are certain individuals who have a dread of passing through a church-yard after night-fall? Why others experience an involuntary shuddering at entering a church, or any other large uninhabited edifice, in the dark? And, in fine, why persons who are deservedly considered as possessing courage and good sense, dare not visit at night even places where they are certain of meeting with nothing they need dread from living beings? They are ever repeating, that the living are only to be dreaded; and yet fear night, because they believe, by tradition, that it is the time which phantoms choose for appearing to the inhabitants of the earth..."

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mathew Lewis,Percy Bysshe Shelley,Lord Byron,John Polidori
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1467969885

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Fantasmagoriana by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mathew Lewis,Percy Bysshe Shelley,Lord Byron,John Polidori Pdf

In the gloomy summer of 1816, a motley collection of poets, exiles, and adulterers gathered at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva...Fantasmagoriana: a collection of Gothic tales by Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori, all originating in a night of ghost storytelling.Contains the complete FRANKENSTEIN and Polidori's influential THE VAMPYRE, plus Gothic works by Byron, Shelley, and Mathew 'Monk' Lewis.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345806000

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The Big Book of Ghost Stories by Otto Penzler Pdf

Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in book form. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight. Including such classics as “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Open Window” and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore! AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore!

Author : Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501111204

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Ghostly by Audrey Niffenegger Pdf

Selected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry—including Audrey Niffenegger’s own stunning illustrations for each piece—this is a “spine-tingling” (Chicago Tribune) collection of some of the best ghost stories of all time. From Edgar Allen Poe to Kelly Link, MR James to Neil Gaiman, HH Munro to Audrey Niffenegger herself, Ghostly spans the whole history of the ghost story genre from gothic horror to the modern era. Each story is introduced by Audrey Niffenegger, with short original commentary and background on why she chose to include it. Also included is Niffenegger’s own story, “A Secret Life with Cats.” Perfect for the classic and contemporary ghost story aficionado, this haunting volume showcases the best of the best in the field—including Edgar Allan Poe, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Edith Wharton, P.G. Wodehouse, Ray Bradbury, and so many more. “Audrey Niffenegger is a master of the supernatural…She knows a good horror story when she sees one. Ghostly is her collection of the best of the genre” (Bustle).

Author : M.R. James
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473216532

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Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James Pdf

Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses, remote inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures seeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb.

Author : Montague Rhodes James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1159855579

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The Collected Ghost Stories by Montague Rhodes James Pdf

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547720898

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The Book of Ghosts (Collected Horror Tales) by Sabine Baring-Gould Pdf

A Book of Ghosts is a collection of occult stories and gothic tales of ghosts and other supernatural creatures that haunt minds and houses of people since the dawn of time. Table of Contents: Jean Bouchon Pomps and Vanities McAlister The Leaden Ring The Mother of Pansies The Red-haired Girl A Professional Secret H. P. Glámr Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story The Merewigs The "Bold Venture" Mustapha Little Joe Gander A Dead Finger Black Ram A Happy Release The 9.30 Up-train On the Leads Aunt Joanna The White Flag

Author : Eric J. Guignard,Leslie S. Klinger,Lisa Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949491552

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Fantasmagoriana Deluxe by Eric J. Guignard,Leslie S. Klinger,Lisa Morton Pdf

First published in 1812, FANTASMAGORIANA has become one of the most seminal ghost-story anthologies of all time. Originally collected as a French translation of eight German-language tales, FANTASMAGORIANA famously led to the creation of such works as the horror-classic novel FRANKENSTEIN, the short story "The Vampyre" (a progenitor to the fantasy vampire genre), the novella "Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus," the poem "Manfred," and more. In 1813, the anthology was partially translated into English as TALES OF THE DEAD, excluding three of the original stories while adding in one new, and inspiring an even wider audience to delight in stories of the ghostly and macabre. Now, for the first time, both FANTASMAGORIANA and TALES OF THE DEAD have been combined into one English-language volume, in this beautifully presented showcase by Dark Moon Books! Also included within are: * Original English translations by Anna Ziegelhof * Introduction by award-winning author Lisa Morton * Annotations by noted literary editor Leslie S. Klinger * Illustrations, biographies, reading list, and more! Open yourself to FANTASMAGORIANA DELUXE, and to all that is weird, ghostly, and wonderous.

Author : Montague R. James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:753275512

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The Collected Ghost Stories by Montague R. James Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : NYPL:33433068179567

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Ghost Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798886509014

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The World's Favorite Ghost Stories by Anonim Pdf

Experience 13 harrowing tales of the mysterious and the macabre! Gather 'round for ominous tales of the paranormal that'll have you looking over your shoulder to make sure you're actually alone. This curated collection of hair-raising scary stories from across the world will thrill and ensnare. Read them with the lights off—if you dare. Eerie artwork — This artfully illustrated anthology is sprinkled with sinister black-and-white sketches that will haunt your dreams long after you've put it down. Ghosts around the globe — Find stories that include the jikininki from Japan, supernatural specters from Ireland, the ominous silence in Russia, and other classic horror stories. Spine-chilling stories — These creepy tales feature stories from the 19th and 20th centuries like The Yellow Wallpaper and Lost Hearts that will leave horror fans wanting more. Curl up and get spooked with this haunting ghost stories book.

Author : Tony E. Jackson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801892448

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The Technology of the Novel by Tony E. Jackson Pdf

The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex relationship, Tony E. Jackson explains how the technology of alphabetic writing has determined the nature of the modern novel. Jackson's analysis begins with the universal human act of oral storytelling. While telling stories is fundamental to human experience, writing is not. Yet the novel, perhaps more than any other literary form, depends on writing. In fact, as Jackson shows quite clearly, it is writing rather than print that most shapes the forms and contents of the genre. Through striking new readings of works by Austen, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Forster, Woolf, Lessing, and McEwan, Jackson reveals how the phenomena of speech and storytelling interact with the technological characteristics of writing. He also explains how those interactions induced the generic changes in the novel from its eighteenth-century beginnings to postmodernism and beyond. His claims, grounded in a contemporary understanding of human cognitive capacities and constraints, offer a fresh interpretive approach to all written literature. An essential text in the study of the written word, The Technology of the Novel provides new insights into the evolving nature of one of the modern world's most popular narrative forms.

Author : Montague Rhodes James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : OCLC:907154197

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Collected Ghost Stories by Montague Rhodes James Pdf