Resumen
Resumen de Famosos relatos modernos de fantasmas
Para quién es
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.
De qué trata este libro
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.
En este resumen
- 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
Idea clave 1 de 4
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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