From The Supernatural To The Uncanny

Author : Zoltán Biedermann,Stephen M. Hart
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527506923

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From the Supernatural to the Uncanny by Zoltán Biedermann,Stephen M. Hart Pdf

This volume is a collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ It is divided into two complementary sections; the first focussing on research on the discourse of the supernatural (including the miraculous) located in the medieval and early modern eras, and the second consisting of a set of test-cases involving research on the uncanny, often articulated in a post-Freudian sense, as expressed in modern literature, film and art. The eclectic and prismatic approach pursued via a variety of test-cases of the supernatural in this book gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of the supernatural.

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926764649

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Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0848801962

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Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0755114612

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Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Algernon Blackwood continues to demonstrate the power of his words as he shocks and disturbs in this collection of supernatural tales. In a world where the line between sanity and insanity becomes increasingly blurred, tales such as 'Violence' demonstrate the mind's ability to deceive itself to a horrifying end, whilst 'The Terror of the Twins' portrays the destructive power of hate from beyond the grave. In tales where a happy ending is hard to find, prepare yourself for a journey into the darkest elements of the human psyche.

Author : May Sinclair
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840224924

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Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair Pdf

May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her Uncanny Stories (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle. Two lovers are doomed to repeat their empty affair for the rest of eternity... A female telepath is forced to face the consequences of her actions... The victim of a violent murder has the last laugh on his assailant... An amateur philosopher discovers that there is more to Heaven than meets the eye.Specially included in this volume is 'The Intercessor' (1911), Sinclair's powerful story of childhood and abandoned love, a tale whose intensity compares with that of the Brontës.

Author : Václav Černý,Miroslav Novák,Zlata Černá
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0856134228

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Tales of the Uncanny by Václav Černý,Miroslav Novák,Zlata Černá Pdf

Thirty-one tales of ghosts, monsters, evil spirits, and other manifestations of the supernatural from various parts of the world.

Author : Charles G. Waugh,Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : Roc
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451455797

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Supernatural Sleuths by Charles G. Waugh,Martin Harry Greenberg Pdf

Supernatural sleuths and ghostly gumshoes populate these tales of the criminally creepy. Four-time Hugo Award winner Larry Niven headlines this anthology, which also includes tales by William F. Nolan, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Weinberg, and Ron Goulart.

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473399273

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Running Wolf (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures) by Algernon Blackwood Pdf

This early work by Algernon Blackwood was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Running Wolf' is a short story of a supernatural native American werewolf in the Canadian wilderness. Algernon Henry Blackwood was born in Shooter's Hill, South East England, in 1869. In his youth he trained as a doctor at Wellington College in Berkshire, and went on to pursue a number of careers, in areas as varied as milk farming, modelling, journalism and violin teaching. In his thirties, Blackwood returned to England from New York, where he had spent a number of years, and began to write stories of the supernatural. Blackwood was extremely prolific, producing over the course of his life some ten original collections of short stories, fourteen novels, several children's books, and a number of plays. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.

Author : Brian McClellan
Publisher : Brian McClellan
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Uncanny Collateral by Brian McClellan Pdf

Alek Fitz is a reaper, a collection agent who works for the supernatural elements of the world, tracking down debtors and solving problems for clients as diverse as the Lords of Hell, vampires, Haitian loa, and goblins. He’s even worked for the Tooth Fairy on occasion. Based out of Cleveland, Ohio, Alek is the best in the game. As a literal slave to his job, he doesn’t have a choice. When Death comes looking for someone to track down a thief, Alek is flung into a mess of vengeful undead, supernatural bureaucracy, and a fledgling imp war. As the consequences of failure become dire, he has few leads, and the clock is ticking. Only with the help of his friend Maggie—an ancient djinn with a complex past—can he hope to recover the stolen property, save the world, and just maybe wring a favor out of the Great Constant himself. It’s a hell of a job, but somebody’s got to do it . . .

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 071905561X

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The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, "The uncanny," where he was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious but, more specifically, as something strangely familiar. As a concept and a feeling, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to at least the Enlightenment. Nicholas Royle offers a detailed historical account of the emergence of the uncanny, together with a series of close readings of different aspects of the topic. Following a major introductory historical and critical overview, there are chapters on the death drive, déjà-vu, "silence, solitude and darkness," the fear of being buried alive, doubles, ghosts, cannibalism, telepathy, and madness, as well as more "applied" readings concerned, for example, with teaching, politics, film, and religion. This is a major critical study that will be welcomed by students and academics but will also be of interest to the general reader.

Author : Peter Hepplewhite,Neil Tonge
Publisher : Hamlyn Childrens Books
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 0600592960

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The Uncanny by Peter Hepplewhite,Neil Tonge Pdf

Author : Bryan A. Netherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 0216897254

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Uncanny by Bryan A. Netherwood Pdf

Author : Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664595355

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Uncanny Tales by Mrs. Molesworth Pdf

'Uncanny Tales' is a collection of short stories by Mary Louise Molesworth, an English writer of children's literature. The book contains stories such as, 'The Shadow In The Moonlight', 'The Man With The Cough', 'Half-Way Between The Stiles' and 'The Clock That Struck Thirteen.'

Author : Reader's Digest Editors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 0864389108

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Almanac of the Uncanny by Reader's Digest Editors Pdf

The supernatural, curiosities and wonders.

Author : A. Despotopoulou,K. Reed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119840

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Henry James and the Supernatural by A. Despotopoulou,K. Reed Pdf

This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.