Detective Fiction And The Ghost Story

Author : M. Cook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137294892
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story written by M. Cook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James and Tony Hillerman.

Author : M. R. James
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502733863
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasure of Abbot Thomas written by M. R. James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montague Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".James was born in Goodnestone Parsonage, near Dover in Kent, England, although his parents had associations with Aldeburgh in Suffolk. From the age of three (1865) until 1909 his home, if not always his residence, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, Suffolk. This had also been the childhood home of another eminent Suffolk antiquary, "Honest Tom" Martin (1696–1771) "of Palgrave." Several of his ghost stories are set in Suffolk, including "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" (Felixstowe), "A Warning to the Curious" (Aldeburgh), "Rats" and "A Vignette" (Great Livermere). He lived for many years, first as an undergraduate, then as a don and provost, at King's College, Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Pitt Club. The university provides settings for several of his tales. Apart from medieval subjects, James studied the classics and appeared very successfully in a staging of Aristophanes' play The Birds, with music by Hubert Parry. His ability as an actor was also apparent when he read his new ghost stories to friends at Christmas time.In September 1873 he arrived as a boarder at Temple Grove School, one of the leading boys' preparatory schools of the day.James is best known for his ghost stories, but his work as a medievalist scholar was prodigious and remains highly respected in scholarly circles. Indeed, the success of his stories was founded on his antiquarian talents and knowledge. His discovery of a manuscript fragment led to excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, in 1902, in which the graves of several twelfth-century abbots described by Jocelyn de Brakelond (a contemporary chronicler) were rediscovered, having been lost since the Dissolution. His 1917 edition of the Latin Lives of Saint Aethelberht, king and martyr (English Historical Review 32), remains authoritative.He catalogued many of the manuscript libraries of the Cambridge colleges. Among his other scholarly works, he wrote The Apocalypse in Art, which placed illuminated Apocalypse manuscripts into families. He also translated the New Testament Apocrypha and contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903). His ability to wear his learning lightly is apparent in his Suffolk and Norfolk (Dent, 1930), in which a great deal of knowledge is presented in a popular and accessible form, and in Abbeys (Great Western Railway, 1925).James also achieved a great deal during his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1893–1908). He managed to secure a large number of important paintings and manuscripts, including notable portraits by Titian.James was Provost of Eton College from 1918 to 1936. He died in 1936 and was buried in Eton town cemetery.

Author : Scott William Carter
Publisher : Flying Raven Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Detective written by Scott William Carter and published by Flying Raven Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Cook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230313736
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction written by M. Cook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048631748X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen stories, including "The Willows" — acclaimed by Lovecraft as the finest supernatural story ever written — "The Wendigo," "Ancient Sorceries," and others. Includes an introduction by E. F. Bleiler.

Author : M. Cook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137294892
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story written by M. Cook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James and Tony Hillerman.

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 12 English Detective Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve stories provide an entertaining exploration of this extensive and fascinating corner of English popular fiction, celebrating the detective's intellectual and intuitive powers when confronted with murder, theft, and other mysteries. The main focus of this collection is from the 1890s to the 1920s, the period when the classic English detective story was at its confident and original best, but it also offers examples from earlier and later periods. Presenting a balance of classic and more unusual stories, and featuring works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes, this anthology will appeal to both the newcomer and aficionado of the genre.

Author : Daisy Pettles
Publisher : Hot Pants Press, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Busting Mystery written by Daisy Pettles and published by Hot Pants Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veenie Goens and Ruby Jane Waskom would like to retire, but they lack a nest egg. In fact, they barely have a nest. They co-own a ramshackle, but cozy home, that’s overrun with quirky characters. Determined to supplement their social security, the amateur aging women sleuths, who live in the small town of Knobby Waters, Indiana, decide to go pro with their one natural talent: nosiness. They sign on as detectives with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, run by Harry Shades, an incompetent womanizer. Their knees aching, but their spirits high, the senior sleuths’ first crime case, the Ghost Busting Mystery, finds the lifelong friends chasing ghosts, bank robbers and hillbilly hoodlums through the barnyards of rural Indiana. Follow Ruby Jane and Veenie’s antics in the Ghost Busting Mystery, an award-winning feel-good, funny mystery voted the Best Humor Book 2019 by the Indie Reader. This is Book 1 in the humorous Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Cozy Mystery Series.

Author : Carolyn Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Technique of the Mystery Story written by Carolyn Wells and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Pullman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753410110
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detective Stories written by Philip Pullman and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a marvellous collection of murderous, greedy and immoral villains brought to book by the greatest fictional detectives, who date from the golden age of crime literature as well as the present day. Follow in the footsteps of criminal masterminds and marvel at the inspired deductions of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and the brilliant (if timid) Mr Budd. Nick Hardcastle's line drawings make these riveting stories come alive