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Old LandMark Publishing, 2005

Review of Bierce's Ghost & Horror Stories
This was an excellent book. I ordered it because we had to do readings for an English class, but I got so engrossed in the stories required that I ended up reading the entire book cover to cover. Highly recommended!!

Impatient Griselda
Dorothy Scarborough

Grosset and Dunlap, 1927

First line of Chapter One : "Irene Robeline was sitting up with the corpse."

Famous Modern Ghost Stories, 2008

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

From A Southern Porch (1919)
Dorothy Scarborough

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

7 reviews
Dorothy Scarborough

Lethe Press, 2001

The supernatural in literature
First of all the potential reader should know that this book was published in 1917, so the 'Modern' in the title refers to the latter part of the nineteenth century, and the earliest part of the twentieth century. Secondly, the author omits mention of most of the ghost story authors from that period who are still popular today, e.g. J. S. Le Fanu (first ghostly tale published in 1838) and M. R. ...

The Wind

3 reviews
Dorothy Scarborough

Popular Library, 1980

City girl in Texas, finding her way
A spoiled city girl of 17 finds herself at the mercy of the weather and west Texans. It gets to be too much for her to bear. The 1928 movie with Lillian Gish differs from the book in the ending.One of my favorite stories of a woman finding her way in the world and how she attempts to deal with reality.An excellent source of literature and movie comparison for someone doing a paper!

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Daniel Kretschmer, 2008

Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before. They are far more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more interested in them. There are persons that claim to be acquainted with specific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with them, and even some who insist that they are private secretaries to the dead. Others of us mortals, ...

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

1 review
Dorothy Scarborough

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917

Mad heroines, spiritualism, gothic horror
First of all the potential reader should know that this book was originally published in 1917, so the 'Modern' in the title refers to the latter part of the nineteenth century, and the earliest part of the twentieth century. Secondly, the author omits mention of most of the ghost story authors from that period who are still popular today, e.g. J. S. Le Fanu (first ghostly tale published in ...

Famous Modern Ghost Stories (Dodo Press)

Dodo Press, 2007

Dorothy Scarborough was a United States writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and a woman's life in the Midwest. Even though Scarborough's writings are identified with Texas, she studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University and later taught literature at Columbia University. While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917).

Famous Ghost Stories

Aegypan, 2006

"Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality today than ever before. They are far more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more interested in them. There are persons that claim to be acquainted with specific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with them, and even some who insist that they are private secretaries to the dead. Others of us mortals, ...

The Best Psychic Stories (1920)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

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