| Famous Ghost Stories, Edited by Dorothy Scarborough, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Horror Contributor(s): Scarborough, Dorothy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1598184814 ISBN-13: 9781598184815 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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, more reserved, are content to keep such distance as we may from even the shadow of a shade. . . ." Dorothy Scarborough said in her introduction to this volume, setting the books tone quite nicely. Originally published in 1921 by G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York and London, this volume was then entitled "Famous Modern Ghost Stories." Scarborough was a lecturer in English for Columbia University who also worked as an author and anthologist. Her works included "The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction," "Fugitive Verses," "From a Southern Porch," all of which she authored; she also compiled volumes of stories, including this one and "Humorous Ghost Stories." Among the authors anthologized here are Algernon Blackwood, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Robert W. Chambers, Anatole France, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and Guy de Maupassant. |
Contributor Bio(s): Scarborough, Dorothy: - "Emily Dorothy Scarborough (1878 - 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest. Scarborough was born in Mount Carmel, Texas. At the age of four she moved to Sweetwater, Texas for her mother's health, as her mother needed the drier climate. The family soon left Sweetwater in 1887, so that the Scarborough children could get a good education at Baylor College. Even though Scarborough's writings are identified with Texas, she studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University and beginning in 1916 taught literature at Columbia University. While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, "The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917)." Sylvia Ann Grider writes in a critical introduction the dissertation "was so widely acclaimed by her professors and colleagues that it was published and it has become a basic reference work." Dorothy Scarborough came in contact with many writers in New York, including Edna Ferber and Vachel Lindsay. She taught creative writing classes at Columbia. Among her creative writing students were Eric Walrond and Carson McCullers, who took her first college writing class from Scarborough. Her most critically acclaimed book, The Wind (first published anonymously in 1925), was later made into a film of the same name starring Lillian Gish." |