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Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird tales from the heartland of New England Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was a highly regarded and prominent 19th century American author. She began writing as a teenager to assist in supporting her family, and her pivotal career moment came when she became secretary to Oliver Wendall Holmes who, among other achievements, was acclaimed as one of the most outstanding American poets of his generation. Freeman writing abilities now developed rapidly, and as well as poetry, she displayed a particular talent for the crafting of short fiction; this led to her becoming an exponent of the supernatural tale. Freeman spent virtually all her life in Massachusetts and Vermont, and the rural flavour of New England permeates her work, giving it a distinctive style and canvas instantly recognisable as her own. This very substantial Leonaur collection of Mary Wilkins Freeman's fiction of the uncanny includes 'Evelina's Garden, ' 'Silence, ' 'The Love of Parson Lord, ' 'The Buckley Lady, ' 'Giles Corey, Yeoman' and many more stories of the strange and unusual. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Book Synopsis The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird tales from the heartland of New England Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was a highly regarded and prominent 19th century American author. She began writing as a teenager to assist in supporting her family, and her pivotal career moment came when she became secretary to Oliver Wendall Holmes who, among other achievements, was acclaimed as one of the most outstanding American poets of his generation. Freeman writing abilities now developed rapidly, and as well as poetry, she displayed a particular talent for the crafting of short fiction; this led to her becoming an exponent of the supernatural tale. Freeman spent virtually all her life in Massachusetts and Vermont, and the rural flavour of New England permeates her work, giving it a distinctive style and canvas instantly recognisable as her own. This very substantial Leonaur collection of Mary Wilkins Freeman's fiction of the uncanny includes 'Evelina's Garden, ' 'Silence, ' 'The Love of Parson Lord, ' 'The Buckley Lady, ' 'Giles Corey, Yeoman' and many more stories of the strange and unusual. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Book Synopsis Lost Ghosts by : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book Lost Ghosts written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the weird fiction of the American writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930). Better known for her mainstream writings focusing on the lives of men and women in New England, Freeman was frequently attracted to the weird, and her work culminated in the notable volume The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903). But that book contained only a small number of her weird tales, and this volume for the first time reprints all the weird work written over her long career, including a rare play about the Salem witchcraft, Giles Corey, Yeoman. The Classics of Gothic Horror series seeks to reprint novels and stories from the leading writers of weird fiction over the past two centuries or more. Ever since the Gothic novels of the late 18th century, supernatural horror has been a slender but provocative contribution to Western literature. Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, the Victorian ghost story writers, the "titans" of the early twentieth century (Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft), the Weird Tales writers, and many others contributed to the development and enrichment of weird fiction as a literary genre, and their work deserves to be enshrined in comprehensive, textually accurate editions. S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction, has done exactly that in establishing this series. Using scholarly resources honed over decades of wide-ranging research, he has assembled volumes featuring not only the complete weird writings of the authors in question, but exhaustive bio-critical introductions and bibliographical data.
Book Synopsis The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman by :
Download or read book The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural ... by : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural ... written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Collection Stories by : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Collection Stories written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 - March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. In this book: The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural The Pot of Gold, And Other Stories The Copy-Cat and Other Stories The Green Door Young Lucretia and Other Stories Evelina's Garden Pembroke, A Novel The Adventures of Ann, Stories of Colonial Times
Book Synopsis Collected Ghost Stories by : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book Collected Ghost Stories written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by Arkham House Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadows on the Wall written by M. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing an influential American author to the series, offering a view of how weird fiction developed in the U.S. alongside the works of British authors. It includes two stories missed by the 'complete' strange story anthologies which have been assembled thanks to Mike Ashley's expertise. Suddenly he began hastening hither and thither about the room. He moved the furniture with fierce jerks, turning ever to see the effect upon the shadow on the wall. Not a line of its terrible outlines wavered. The disquieting tales of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman explore a world of contrast, where the supernatural erupts out of authentically drawn portraits of New England life. This is a world of witchcraft, secrecy, domestic spaces turned uncanny and ancestral vengeance inflicted upon the unfortunates of the present. Collecting the best of the author's strange tales - including 'The White Shawl', which was unpublished during her lifetime - this volume casts a light on an underappreciated contributor to weird fiction and the shadowy corners of a dark imagination.
Author :Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Publisher :W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN 13 :9780393301069 Total Pages :344 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis Selected Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book Selected Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1983 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories depict the lives of women in late nineteenth-century New England, as sisters, friends, wives and individuals.
Book Synopsis The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon by : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 Novels, 5 Novelettes and 23 short stories in four volumes of ghost, mystery and horror tales Lovers of the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins know that to discover his female counterpart they need look no further than the works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. She was a prolific author of the kind of dark melodrama much loved by her contemporary audience and her most renowned work, 'Lady Audley's Secret, ' has been often dramatised, filmed and, indeed, has never been out of print from the time of its original publication. Never was the accolade, 'The Queen of Sensation' so well deserved as it was by her. It is not unusual that a writer who produced so much material-and much of that with a flavour of the Gothic-should also turn her talents to the genre of supernatural and strange fiction, since there was much precedent for it among her literary peers and much appetite for it among the reading public. So it is, perhaps, unsurprising that this Leonaur collection of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's forays into the other worldly and bizarre runs to four substantial, satisfying volumes. In volume one readers will discover an eerie novel, 'The White Phantom, ' which has all the cliff-hangers, twists, turns, shocks and startling revelations any reader could wish for to keep them on the edge of their seats to the last turn of the page. Accompanying it here are three short stories of the strange, including 'My Dream.' 'The Island of Old Faces' and the flesh creeping 'The Cold Embrace.' Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Book Synopsis The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by : Mary Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionAuthor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman gained acclaim in her time as a chronicler of life in rural New England. .
Book Synopsis The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Megapack by : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Megapack written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is most remembered today for her ghost stories, but she was a prolific and popular author in many genres: not only the supernatural, but mystery and suspense, romance, and especially contemporary fiction were her speciality. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. For this volume, we have grouped the most famous of her supernatural stories together at the beginning, then moved on to more mainstream works. I’m certain you will find something you enjoy; her interests and subject matter were broad, and her work holds up remarkably well today. Included in this volume: THE WIND IN THE ROSE-BUSH THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL LUELLA MILLER THE SOUTHWEST CHAMBER THE VACANT LOT THE LOST GHOST A FAR-AWAY MELODY THE LITTLE MAID AT THE DOOR A SYMPHONY IN LAVENDER THE HALL BEDROOM A GENTLE GHOST THE TWELFTH GUEST THE JADE BRACELET THE WITCH'S DAUGHTER THE PRISM THE POT OF GOLD THE COW WITH GOLDEN HORNS PRINCESS ROSETTA AND THE POP-CORN MAN THE CHRISTMAS MONKS THE PUMPKIN GIANT THE CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE DILL THE SILVER HEN TOBY THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL THE SQUIRE'S SIXPENCE A PLAIN CASE THE STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE THE BOUND GIRL DEACON THOMAS WALES'S WILL THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER TWO OLD LOVERS THE BAR LIGHT-HOUSE THE STORY OF LITTLE MARY WHITLOW A MISTAKEN CHARITY ON THE WALPOLE ROAD A HUMBLE ROMANCE A MODERN DRAGON AN HONEST SOUL A MORAL EXIGENCY A TASTE OF HONEY A GATHERER OF SIMPLES BRAKES AND WHITE VI'LETS AN OBJECT OF LOVE A SOUVENIR OLD LADY PINGREE A WAYFARING COUPLE IN BUTTERFLY TIME AN OLD ARITHMETICIAN ROBINS AND HAMMERS GENTIAN A CONFLICT ENDED THE "HORSE HOUSE" DEED AN UNWILLING GUEST CINNAMON ROSES A WANDERING SAMARITAN A LOVER OF FLOWERS A PATIENT WAITER A CONQUEST OF HUMILITY If you enjoyed this Megapack, please check out the rest of the series -- covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classic authors, and much, much more! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the whole list.
Book Synopsis The Wind in the Rose-Bush by : Mary Eleanor Freeman
Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush written by Mary Eleanor Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderfully artistic and enthralling tales of the supernatural." -Vanity Fair "Mary E. Wilkins has produced some really astonishing results in the way of mysteries in the book of short stories which she calls 'The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Tales of the Supernatural.' Without the use of the element of horror that characterizes Bulwer-Lytton's 'The House and the Brain' or the word of Poe in the same field, relying rather upon terror, so different a sentiment, she constructs out of the ordinary, commonplace, everyday life of New England a number of episodes that will send the most hardened to bed with an uneasy glance behind. It is inevitably crime, or something closely akin to crime, that lies behind her various weirdnesses; but she has the wise economy of narration which refuses to disclose most of these deeds of shame, and her work may fairly be called engrossing." -The Dial "When opening a book by Miss Wilkins, the last thing the reader expects is that she will 'freeze his young blood,' or 'make his two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,' but this is just what will happen to him during the perusal of 'The Wind in the Rose Bush.' There is something horrifying about the ghosts which belong to a new country and new houses They are too recent. The ghost which lived three hundred years ago is a piece of picturesque 'property' enriching the scene of an old and historic house. But to find among us the modern spirit, already returned from the bourn to which he only traveled some time last year, is not to be borne. Miss Wilkins's ghosts are all intolerable just in this way. The wind which blows about the rose-bush on a calm day, the dreadful child who brings back to their owners articles left about the house, the wicked old woman whose face is reflected in the looking-glass, replacing that of the woman who looks in, - each and all signify the return of the recently dead. Miss Wilkins writes with such calm and deliberate detail that she goes far towards convincing her readers of the truth of each story in turn; and he will be a bold man who, finishing the book late at night, will go to bed without glancing several times behind him." -The Spectator "Miss Wilkins displays a rare skill in the invention of six of the most attractively repellent ghost stories we ever read. These tales, however, have in them nothing that is commonplace or vulgar, unless it be right so to designate some of the honest, kindly folk who serve as foils to the fearful phantoms and still more dreadful doers-of-evil figuring in the book. From each of these tales may be learnt a moral lesson calculated to have all the more lasting effect, because, the tale having once been read, it is impossible to forget the horror of it." -The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record "There is a certain matter-of-fact realism in these ghost stories that gives one the desired shock of horror when it is least expected. The stage is not darkened, apparently no preparations have been made for a drama of the supernatural, when suddenly the most commonplace object or event betrays shamelessly somebody's trust in the sanity of common life. A mysterious odor of cabbage becomes a warning, bed-hangings change their pattern unwarrantably, a bush shakes when the wind is still, and immediately the spirits have their way with you." -The Unitarian Register Contents The Wind in the Rose-bush The Shadows on the Wall Luella Miller The Southwest Chamber The Vacant Lot The Lost Ghost
Book Synopsis Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by Irvington Pub. This book was released on 1986-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman by : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: century they have remained virtually inaccessible. This volume brings together twenty of the best of Freeman's uncollected stories from such magazines as Century, Collier's, Harper's Monthly, Good Housekeeping, The Golden Book, Woman's Home Companion, Independent, and Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. This collection restores significant works to the treasury of American literature.
Book Synopsis The Wind in the Rosebush by : Mary Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book The Wind in the Rosebush written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only collection of supernatural tales Freeman wrote and was originally published in 1903. This volume is NOT a scanned facsimile but has been carefully edited and formatted to produce a readable copy of quality. This volume also includes a short story by the editor.
Book Synopsis The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by : Mary E Wilkins
Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural written by Mary E Wilkins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Wilkins may know her own New England no more intimately now than when she first so successfully celebrated it. But it is plain that she has crown to look upon it a little differently; more tenderly, - almost, as it were, more maternally; and though her comedy was always of the kind that is near to pathos, she seems now more than ever to smile through tears of sympathy at her own most delicious creations. Such, at least, is the impression produced by her latest book, which contain six remarkable short stories. Inevitably, this book stimulates the wish that Miss Wilkins, who is a good novelist, but a great writer of short stories, should continue to practise the latter art to the end of her days. For the present, this unpretending volume may well be a matter of national pride; we have surely nothing more individual, nothing we could exhibit with fewer reservations. If Mr. Peter Newell, whose unquestioned talents are of distinctly another order, had not been permitted to illustrate it, "The Wind in the Rose-Bush" would be a volume to cherish. The title story is a masterpiece of insight, significance, controlled imagination. Although, like the remaining five stories in the book, it is a ghost story, it seems almost to vulgarize it to call it so, with such masterly plausibility is the ghostly related to the human. Miss Wilkins has never been one to make use of hackneyed tools; yet a striking feature of these tales of the supernatural is the complete avoidance of the conventional vocabulary of horror. Miss Wilkins's ghosts do not require a dark and musty milieu; and by the unexpectedness of their introduction into familiar, sun-light, domestic scenes, she secures an intensity of effect that the well-worn machinery of ghost-literature could never compass. Nor would any less unconventional writer than Miss Wilkins have bethought himself to assign such fitting individualities to these by no means passive apparitions; or to replace the sinister criminal of tradition with such bland and cheerful substitutes as figure in "The Shadows on the Wall" and "The Wind in the Rose-Bush." Nothing could be more uncannily appropriate than that the ghost of malicious Aunt Harriet, who haunted the "south-west chamber," should have been given to petty, teasing tricks, like snatching bodices and brooches. It is the pastime of the little "lost ghost," overworked during its baby lifetime, to glide pathetically about the house in search of clothes to put away or dishes to wash. -The Critic, Volume 43 [1903]
