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The Aspern Papers and the Turn of the Screw
by Henry James

ISBN 185326069X (1-85326-069-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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In these two chilling stories, Henry James shows himself to be a master of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. Obsession of a more worldly variety lies at the heart of The Aspern Papers, the tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on some letters written by a great poet-and prepared to use trickery and deception to achieve his aims.

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Bag of Bones
by Stephen King

ISBN 067102423X (0-671-02423-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mom with a marvelous, psychic daughter). There is also good-humored satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children, and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit, and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison

ISBN 1400033411 (1-4000-3341-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Gustave Dore

ISBN 188895700X (1-888957-00-X)
Hardcover, McE Pub

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Dust jacket notes: "This is the first book edition of a remarkable set of 45 lost wood engravings from 1861 by Gustave Dore, the great French illustrator. Recently discovered in an obscure old French magazine, they somehow eluded the grasp of scholars for the last 135 years. Apparently, even Charles Dickens did not know of their existence. They are by far the largest set of Victorian engravings for the story, and they include the first drawing ever made of Tiny Tim! But this beautiful Christmas gift book is much more than that. It also contains the full text of A Christmas Carol, plus all the other early sets of illustrations for the story (by Leech, Phiz, Abbey, Barnard, etc.) making a total of nearly 200 Victorian engravings! The dust jacket front cover features several of the lost engravings, colorized by artist Mike Nicastre. A scholarly introduction by Dan Malan, who discovered this set of lost engravings while writing a major reference work on Dore, explores the significance of the lost engravings and the relationship between Dickens and Dore, with lists of their illustrated editions...." [via]
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Neil Bartlett

ISBN 1840023996 (1-84002-399-6)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd

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- Beautifully illustrated in colour by well-known artists such as Quentin Blake and Michael Foreman.- Complete and unabridged editions.- Available individually at only $6.95 in paperback. [via]
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles Dickens, Richard Kelly

ISBN 1551114763 (1-55111-476-3)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation
by John Harwood

ISBN 0312125593 (0-312-12559-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. [via]
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The Ghost Writer
by John Harwood

ISBN 0156032325 (0-15-603232-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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The Cornish prayer: "From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" is an appropriate invocation when reading The Ghost Writer, John Harwoods debut novel. It is a rousing good ghost story, with many twists and turns, rather like taking apart a Russian matryoshka nesting doll.
Gerard Freeman, at age ten, sneaks into his mother's room and unlocks a secret drawer, only to find a picture of a woman he has never seen before, but one that he will find again and again. His mother discovers him and gives him the beating of his life. Why this excessive reaction? She is a worried, paranoid, thin, and fretful type with an "anxious, haunted look." By tale's end, we know why.
Phyllis Freeman, Gerard's mother, was happiest when speaking fondly of Staplefield, her childhood home, where there were things they "didnt have in Mawson [Australia], chaffinches and mayflies and foxgloves and hawthorn, coopers and farriers and old Mr. Bartholomew who delivered fresh milk and eggs to their house with his horse and cart." It's the sort of childhood idyll that the timid and lonely Gerard believes in and longs for. He strikes up a correspondence with an English "penfriend," Alice Jessel, when he is 13 and a half, living in a desolate place with a frantic mother and a silent father. She is his age, her parents were killed in an accident and she has been crippled by it. She now lives in an institution, whose grounds she describes as much the way Staplefield looked. They go through young adulthood together, in letters only, thousands of miles apart, eventuallydeclaring their love for one another.
Interwoven with the narrative of Alice and Gerard's letters are real ghost stories, the creation of Gerard's great-grandmother, Viola. At first, they seem to be scary Victorian tales of the supernatural. Then, we see that they have a spooky way of mirroring, or preceding, events in real life, off the page. Gerard comes upon them, one by one, in mysterious ways, but clearly something, or someone, is leading him. The stories seem to implicate his mother in some nefarious goings-on, but the truth is far worse than Gerard imagines.
Any more would be telling too much. Turn on all the lights in the house when you settle down with this one, and plan to spend a long time reading because you will be lost in the story immediately. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Girl in a Swing
by Richard Adams

ISBN 0394510496 (0-394-51049-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Girl in a Swing, The, by Adams, Richard [via]
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A Girl in a Swing
by Richard George Adams

ISBN 0451163060 (0-451-16306-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The Haunting
by Shirley Jackson

ISBN 0140287434 (0-14-028743-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson

ISBN 0140071083 (0-14-007108-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Otra Vuelta De Tuerca
by Henry James

ISBN 9875505439 (987-550-543-9)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.

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Siguen viviendo las personas despues de la muerte? En caso afirmativo, mantienen contacto con el mundo de los vivos? No es facil dar respuesta a estas preguntas, aunque quiza muchos ofrezcan una respuesta clara y rapida. En todo caso, esa posible relacion entre los muertos y los vivos es algo que ha atraido desde siempre a la humanidad, y son muy numerosos y variados los relatos dedicados a tratar este tema. Para algunos, el mundo esta plagado de espiritus y fantasmas, seres de otro mundo que irrumpen y se ponen en contacto con personas especialmente dotadas para percibir su influencia. [via]
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Pharos
by Alice Thompson

ISBN 1860499538 (1-86049-953-8)
Hardcover, Virago

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Twenty-seven miles off the coast of Scotland lies Jacob's Rock, a lighthouse island. There, the tower sways in the wind, more a thing of nature than of man. In fact, apart from the lighthouse keeper and his apprentice, the island seems to be ruled by forces both natural and supernatural-and the ghost of a slave girl has been known to haunt the island's crypt. [via]
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Pharos: A Ghost Story
by Alice Thompson

ISBN 0312318103 (0-312-31810-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press

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Rendezvous at the Straits: Fur Trade And Military Activities at Fort de Buade And Fort Michilimackinac, 1669v1781
by Timothy J. Kent

ISBN 0965723046 (0-9657230-4-6)
Hardcover, Silver Fox Enterprises

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First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. [via]
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Turn of the Screw
by Henry James

ISBN 1420922440 (1-4209-2244-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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THE TURN OF THE SCREW is the greatest and most subtle of all English-language ghost stories. H.P. Lovecraft praised its "truly potent air of sinister menace" and "mounting tide of fright" and subsequent critics have argued long and hard over the central "problem" of the story: if the motifs of the traditional ghost story, in the hands of a master, are used to probe the deepest depths of the human psyche, do the resultant terrors spring from the objective return of the spirits of the dead, or from the fears, memories, and guilt the expectation of such apparitions may evoke? Are there any ghosts in this story at all? James himself might have been puzzled by that question. His own remarks make it clear that what he had in mind was a "sinister romance," inspired by a ghostly story he had heard from an Archbishop of Canterbury. He wrote of the "portentous evil" of the "demon-spirits" in the story, but it was his genius to make them so profoundly mysterious that THE TURN OF THE SCREW will survive any number of interpretations, and go on to chill and delight readers for centuries to come. THE TURN OF THE SCREW was memorably filmed as THE INNOCENTS (1961), arguably the finest cinematic ghost story of all time. [via]
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Turn of the Screw
by Peter G. Beidler, Henry James

ISBN 0312080832 (0-312-08083-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Henry James' short novels provide an overview of his entire career and serve as an excellent introduction to his singular art and imagination. This collection includes The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The Beast in the Jungle, An International Episode, The Aspern Papers and The Altar of the Dead. Major course adoption potential. [via]
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The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
by Peter G. Beidler, Henry James

ISBN 0312406916 (0-312-40691-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of Jamess classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.
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Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller
by Henry James

ISBN 1570020574 (1-57002-057-4)
Softcover, Univ Pub House

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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
by Henry James

ISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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UN Saco De Huesos
by Stephen King

ISBN 8497595963 (84-9759-596-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill, John Lawrence

ISBN 1567921892 (1-56792-189-2)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub

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First published in 1983, The Woman in Black is Susan Hill's best-loved novel, and the basis for the UK's second longest ever running stage play, and a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, travels to a remote village to put the affairs of a recently deceased client, Alice Drablow in order. As he works alone in her isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover disturbing secrets - and his unease grows when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed in black. The locals are strangely unwilling to talk about the unsettling occurrence, and Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent... [via]
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Otra Vuelta De Tuerca
by Henry James

ISBN 8420635898 (84-206-3589-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Indice dinamico.

Una institutriz acude al cuidado de dos niños en una vetusta mansión. Lo que en principio parece un cometido agradable, derivará en una situación de pesadilla. Los niños viven impactados por un pasado inmediato en el que la anterior institutriz y el jardinero mantenían una turbia relación. La vida junto a la institutriz y su muerte posterior han dejado en ellos una huella indeleble. La protagonista de la historia, al tratar de ayudar a los niños, comienza a percibir las apariciones de los fantasmas de la anterior institutriz, muerta en extrañas circunstancias, y del jardinero.

Novela de terror psicológico y de suspenso, escrita en 1898 por el neoyorquino Henry James y cuya trama a inspirado películas como Los otros o El orfanato.
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