Contents:
Washington Irving and the American Ghost Story • essay by G. Richard Thompson [as by G. R. Thompson ]
Phantasms and Death in Poe's Fiction • essay by J. Gerald Kennedy
Philanthropy and the Occult in the Fiction of Hawthorne, Brownson, and Melville • essay by Carolyn L. Karcher
"I must have died at ten minutes past one": Posthumous Reverie in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "The Amber Gods" • essay by Barton Levi St. Armand
Ghostly Rentals, Ghostly Purchases: Haunted Imaginations in James, Twain, and Bellamy • essay by Jay Martin
James's Last Early Supernatural Tales: Hawthorne Demagnetized, Poe Depoetized • essay by Howard Kerr
Psychology and the Psychic in W. D. Howell's "A Sleep and a Forgetting" • essay by Charles L. Crow and John W. Crowley
"When Other Amusements Fail": Mark Twain and the Occult • essay by Alan Gribben
Jack London: Up from Spiritualism • essay by Charles N. Watson, Jr.
The Color of "The Damned Thing": The Occult as the Supersensational • essay by Cruce Stark
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