Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Berühmte moderne Geistergeschichten
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love short, eerie fiction, quiet dread and terrifying encounters with the dead. It also suits students of the genre and anyone who enjoys a sampler of ghost stories from one period.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Famous Modern Ghost Stories is an anthology gathered by Dorothy Scarborough, an American writer and teacher of fiction. She brought together tales of haunting by authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at a time when the ghost story had become a serious form of short fiction.
Scarborough was a student of the supernatural in literature, and she chose with a critic's eye. You get a range of moods, from quiet dread to open terror, and a sense of how writers of her day used the ghost. In this summary you will meet the compiler, the kind of tales she collected, and the ideas that run through them. First, let us look at the woman who made the book.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A scholar of the supernatural compiles itFree
- 2The ghost story had come of age
- 3What kinds of fear you will meet
- 4Why these tales still unsettle readers
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A scholar of the supernatural compiles it
Dorothy Scarborough was born in Texas and became known as a novelist and a university teacher. She took the supernatural seriously as a subject. Before this anthology she wrote a study of the supernatural in fiction, and that study shaped how she read these stories.
She did not treat ghost tales as mere entertainment for a dark night. To her they were a living branch of literature, with its own craft and its own history. That view guides her choices in this collection.
An anthologist of this kind acts as a guide. She decides which voices a reader meets first, and which fears are worth showing. The book carries her taste, which favors careful storytelling over cheap shocks.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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Questions about Berühmte moderne Geistergeschichten
What is Famous Modern Ghost Stories about?
It is an anthology of ghost stories chosen by Dorothy Scarborough. The tales come from modern authors of her time and range from quiet, eerie hauntings to more openly terrifying encounters with the dead.
Who was Dorothy Scarborough?
She was an American writer and university teacher from Texas. She wrote novels, including The Wind, and studied supernatural fiction closely. That interest led her to compile this collection of ghost stories.
Is Famous Modern Ghost Stories a true story?
No. The book is a collection of fiction. The stories are invented tales of haunting, written by various authors and gathered in the early twentieth century for readers who enjoyed supernatural literature.
Is it hard to read?
Not usually. The stories are short and can be read one at a time. Some use older sentence styles and manners, but the plots are easy to follow and the mood does the work.
Is Famous Modern Ghost Stories worth reading?
It is worth reading if you enjoy short, atmospheric fiction. It gives you many styles of ghost story in one volume and shows how writers of the period built fear through suggestion.