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The Ensouled Violin (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by Madame Blavatsky Pdf
Helena Blavatsky is one of the most famous occultists of all time. Founder of The Theosophical Society, she has developed a polarising reputation; her supporters see her as a visionary and a spiritual genius, her detractors as a charlatan and a fraud. First published in 1892, 'The Ensouled Violin' is one of her lesser-known tales. Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The effect of the notice was magical. Paganini, who, and his greatest triumphs, never lost sight of a profitable speculation, doubled the usual price of admission, but still the theatre could not hold the crowds that flocked to secure tickets for that memorable performance.
The Ensouled Violin by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Pdf
Elena Petrovna Gan (1831-1891), better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society in 1875. She grew up amid a culture rich in spirituality and traditional Russian mythologies, which introduced her to the realm of the supernatural. She spent the years 1848 to 1858 travelling the world, and is said to have visited Egypt, France, Canada (Quebec), England, South America, Germany, Mexico, India, Greece and especially Tibet to study for two years with the men she called Brothers. She claimed to have become Buddhist while in Sri Lanka and to have been initiated in Tibet. She returned to Russia in 1858. Another unfounded account is that while in Cairo she formed the Societe Spirite for occult phenomena with Emma Cutting. It was in 1873 that she emigrated to New York City, impressing people with her psychic abilities, she was spurred on to continue her mediumship. Throughout her career she claimed to have demonstrated physical and mental psychic feats.
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy by Ann Vandermeer,Jeff VanderMeer Pdf
A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight—on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy is essential reading for anyone who’s never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder. INCLUDING: *Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien *Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois *Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions *New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English PLUS: *Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path! *Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful—Do Not Trust Those Fairies!
Ancient Hauntings by Robert Reginald,Douglas Menville Pdf
Originally published in 1976, this anthology includes facsimile reprints of nine early horror stories: "The Ensouled Violin," by H. P. Blavatsky; "The Green Staircase," by Gilbert Campbell; "The Haunted Hansom," by Howell Davies; "The Vial-Genie and the Mad Farthing," by Frédéric de la Motte Fouqué; "The Metempsychosis," by Robert McNish; "Fioraccio," by Giovanni Magherini-Graziani, translated by Mary A. Craig; "A Mystery of the Campagna," by Von Degen (pseud. of Ann C. Rabe); "The Green Hands: A Story About a Duet," by George Augustus Sala; and "Ghosts," Ivan Turgenev.
Hypnosis Gothic Psychology by Michaela Niculescu Pdf
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Europeans started a spectacular quest for the mind or the psyche as that positivity which defines a subject while at the same time separating one subjectivity from another. The positivist context invented an object of study called mind and tried to define it as that which can become subject to ʿinfluenceʾ in Alison Winter's sense. My project is given to exploring the specific ways in which the intimacy of minds seen as bodily intimacy was articulated at the turn of the nineteenth century in England and Europe, at the dawn of a new science of the human psyche, psychology, and two ʿpseudosciencesʾ, psychoanalysis and psychical research, whose aim was that of understanding what communication between subjects meant and how one subject was likely to ʿinfluenceʾ another by acting on him or her. Michaela Niculescu
Contents: an Allegory; Karmic Visions; a Bewitched Life; Can the Double Murder?; an Unsolved Mystery; the Luminous Shield; the Cave of the Echoes; from the Polar Lands; the Ensouled Violin; a Weird Tale; Where the Rishis Were; a Curious Tale;.
Nightmare Tales written by H. P. Blavatsky, This book was published in 1892 and now republished again. This book has 5 stories. 1. A Bewitched Life (As Narrated by a Quill Pen) 2. The Cave of the Echoes (A Strange but True Story) 3. The Luminous Shield 4. From the Polar Lands (A Christmas Story) 5. The Ensouled Violin
Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-siècle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.
I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature, and history, but also a small but exquisitely crafted group of Gothic tales, most of which first appeared in fin de siècle periodicals including the iconic Yellow Book. In these stories of obsession and possession, transgressive desire reaches out from the past — through a haunting portrait, a murdered poet's lock of hair, the uncanny voice of a diabolical castrato — dragging Lee's protagonists to their doom. Among those haunted by Lee's 'spurious ghosts' was Henry James, who praised her 'gruesome, graceful...ingenious tales, full of imagination'. This new edition includes Lee's landmark 1890 collection Hauntings complete, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena', in which Lee probes the elusive nature of the supernatural as a 'vital...fluctuating...potent' force that resists definite representation. Aaron Worth's contextual introduction, drawing upon Lee's newly published letters, reassesses her place in the pantheon of the fantastic. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic by Clive Bloom Pdf
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.