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Department of Literature
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Great Authors of Weird Literature
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Gertrude Atherton

F. Marion Crawford.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

W. W. Jacobs.

Henry James.

M. R. James.

Mary E. Wikins (Freeman).

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Gertrude Atherton (1857 - 1948)
BIO
.A short introductory biography

"The Foghorn," written in 1933, is a psychological horror story that has been compared to The Yellow Wallpaper. Atherton also produced a number of (post-)Gothic stories, some of them, such as "The Bell in the Fog," significant achievements in the Gothic/supernaturalist tradition.

 

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Selected Works

The Bell in the Fog
The Dead and the Countess
Death and the Woman
The Foghorn
The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number
The Striding-Place


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F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909)
BIO
.A short introductory biography

F[rancis]. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) achieved enormous world-wide popularity in the 1880's and 1890's with a long series of novels. However, he is best remembered for
      his collection of uncanny tales of the supernatural.

 

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Selected Works

For the Blood is the Life

The Dead Smile

The Upper Berth

By The Waters of Paradise

The Screaming Skull

Man Overboard

The Doll's Ghost

      Uncanny Tales (1911)
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
BIO
.A short introductory biography

Charlotte Perkins Gilman founded THE FORERUNNER magazine in 1909 and published and edited it over the next seven years until its demise in 1916. Within this forum Gilman continued to explore, explain, and denounce women's and men's roles as prescribed by society. While her novel HERLAND received scant attention when published in 1915, it has been recognized since its first book publication in 1979 as a benchmark of utopian and feminist fiction.

 

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Selected Works

The Yellow Wallpaper
 

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W. W. Jacobs
BIO
.A short introductory biography

William Wymark Jacobs wrote about Wapping wharves and the hands on tramp steamers, the rustic characters who foregather at the Cauliflower Inn and
      the supernatural. His stories include The Monkey's Paw (who many regard as the most gruesome ghost story ever written) and His Brother's Keeper.

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The Monkey's Paw

His Brother's Keeper

Jerry Bundler

Self Help

The Three Sisters

The Toll-House

      The Lady of the Barge (1902)

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Henry James
BIO
.A short introductory biography

Henry James (1843-1916) wrote more than a dozen excellent ghost stories.


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Selected Works

The Turn of the Screw
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
The Jolly Corner
      A Passionate Pilgrim (1875)
      Stories Revived (1885)
 

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M. R. James
BIO
.A short introductory biography

Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (August 1, 1862 – June 12, 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was a noted British mediaeval 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 widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James' most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal gothic trappings of his predecessors, and replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings.


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Selected Works

The Ash Tree
Cannon Alberic's Scrapbook
Casting the Runes
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad

      The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
      The Tractate Middoth
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

 

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Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman)
BIO
.A short introductory biography

Mary E. Wilkins was a highly acclaimed American author who wrote about life in New England. The American Academy of Arts awarded her the Howells
      medal for fiction in 1926. Apart from her many popular novels she wrote over 200 short stories of which the best are her supernatural tales.










 

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The Shadows on the Wall

The Lost Ghost

The Hall Bedroom

      The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903)

The Wind in the Rose-Bush

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BIO
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