“This isn't exactly a ghost story”: Edith Wharton and Parodic Gothic

Evolution of Effect: The Numinous in Gothic and Post-Gothic Ghost Experience Literature

Edith Pechey-Phipson, M.D.: untold story.

ON 7 October, 1845, in the village of Langham near Colchester, Essex, England, a daughter whom they called Mary Edith was born to Baptist Minister William Pechey and his wife Sarah. As Miss Edith Pechey, and later as Dr. Pechey-Phipson, this daughter did so much, in so many ways, to help move the world forward, that her story deserves to be told. Born in the eighth year of the reign of Queen Vi...

«it Reminded Me of Poe’s Story»: Edgar Allan Poe’s Legacy, the Ghost Story and the American Gothic in Richard Matheson’s a Stir of Echoes

Even if A Stir of Echoes (1958) has often been overshadowed by Richard Matheson’s best-known novels I Am Legend (1954) and The Shrinking Man (1956), it should be given the credit it deserves as a novel that functions both as a reflection as well as a source of intertextuality. A Stir of Echoes is rooted in the tradition of the ghost story and the American gothic, but above all, it comprises mot...

Gothic Scholars Don’t Wear Black Gothic Studies and Gothic Subcultures

are hardly in touch with each other. This is something that should ideally change in the near future, since Gothic Studies and Gothic youth subcultures greatly overlap, at least as regards their common interest in Gothic literature, the iconography and the non-literary texts (films, comics, and so on) derived from it. The multiplicity of texts generated by Gothic, understood here as a narrative...

This Is Stevie's Story

attempt to eliminate self-pity and sentimentality, and with an unusual degree of insight and frankness. The advice given on ways of dealing with the problems which have to be faced and the attitudes which make it more possible to face them fairly and squarely, should be found of value, not only to parents but to social workers also?particularly in connection with the pros and cons ot institutio...