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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2025

        Presence

        by Ben Alderson-Day

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        The machine and the ghost

        by Sas Mays, Neil Matheson

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        Literature: history & criticism
        January 2013

        The ghost story 1840 –1920

        by Andrew Smith

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        A familiar compound ghost

        by Sarah Annes Brown

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        The Arts
        December 2019

        Ghost-haunted land

        by Declan Long

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2026

        Reanimating grief

        by William McEvoy

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        The Arts
        June 2017

        Gothic television

        by Helen Wheatley

        Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television. An historical account, the book combines detailed archival research with analyses of key programmes, from Mystery and Imagination and Dark Shadows, to The Woman in White and Twin Peaks, and uncovers an aspect of television drama history which has, until now, remained critically unexplored. While some have seen television as too literal or homely a medium to successfully present Gothic fictions, Gothic television argues that the genre, in its many guises, is, and has always been, well-suited to television as a domestic medium, given the genre's obsessions with haunted houses and troubled families. This book will be of interest to lecturers and students across a number of disciplines including television studies, Gothic studies, and adaptation studies, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the Gothic, and in the history of television drama.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 1996

        The Spanish Tragedy

        Thomas Kyd

        by David Bevington

        The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically juxtaposing romantic passion with sudden violent death and clandestine politics. The ghost of Dan Andrea and his guide Revenge observe the dark and bloody action throughout, provoking questions about the nature of the human condition. ;

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        June 2021

        Scary Harry (Band 2) - Totgesagte leben länger

        Beliebte Kinderbuchreihe ab 10 Jahre

        by Sonja Kaiblinger, , Fréderic Bertrand

        Eine Geisterplage in der Stadt! Bei sämtlichen Schülern aus Ottos Klasse spukt es plötzlich und ein toter spanischer Torero versucht, sich bei Otto und seiner Tante einzunisten. Drei Hausgeister und eine sprechende Fledermaus sind mehr als genug – einen weiteren Geist kann Otto wirklich nicht gebrauchen. Aber wo kommen all die vergessenen Seelen bloß her? Und wie wird man sie wieder los? Auf einmal taucht ein mysteriöser Vertreter auf, der ein Spray namens Anti-Ghost an spukgeschädigte Menschen verkauft. Aber Otto findet, dass da etwas ganz gewaltig stinkt (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes). Zum Glück hat er durch Sensenmann Harold einen guten Draht zur Unterwelt.

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        October 2020

        Begib dich auf die Reise oder Drahtzieher der Sonnenstrahlen

        by Josef Winkler

        Wer Winkler liest, wird Winklers Sprachlust nicht vergessen. Sie entzündet sich an Leben und Sterben im heimatlichen Kamering, am Gewimmel italienischer Märkte – an der Turbulenz zwischen den Scheiterhaufen im indischen Varanasi. Aber auch an Büchern, Gemälden und Skulpturen kann sie sich entzünden, wie diese Sammlung zeigt. Und manchmal kommt es zu einer Selbstentzündung, die Sprachlust fängt einfach so an zu brennen – wenn der Autor aus Traum und Tag zusammenkehrt, was zu besingen ist. Dann entsteht ein Text wie »Specter of the Gardenia«: »Auf die Stimme der weißen Kreide / Auf die Wasseroberfläche des Tintenkleckses (…) / Auf die Unterseite einer gespaltenen Leguanzunge am Bug des sinkenden Schiffes und auf die Meerestiefe meines Tintenfasses – königsblau SCHREIB ICH DEINEN NAMEN …«

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2005

        Pat Barker

        by John Brannigan, Daniel Lea

        This book provides a comprehensive account and critical analysis of the literary career of Pat Barker. It offers readings of Barker's innovations in narrative form, her revisionist perspectives on history, class and gender, and her preoccupation with themes of trauma, haunting and terror. It also analyses the reasons for her success and significance as a novelist. The chapters draw on contemporary theories of critical realism, gender and social identities, memory and narrative, in order to outline the debates with which Barker's work has consistently engaged. Brannigan argues that Barker is one of the most important writers in modern English literary history. She is principally renowned and widely acclaimed for her 'Regeneration' trilogy, the last volume of which, 'The Ghost Road', won the Booker Prize in 1995. In recent novels, Barker has continued to deal with controversial and shocking themes, including child murderers and the meanings of 'terror' in the contemporary world. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2025

        Wild for Austen

        A rebellious, subversive, and untamed Jane

        by Devoney Looser

        Publishing for Jane Austen's 250th birthday, this unmissable book offers an incisive and entertaining look at her life, writing, and legacy. You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest. Tracing the author's life and legacy across 250 years, she reveals an Austen far wilder than the one we know. Looser takes a deep dive into Austen's work, offering fresh insights into her six completed novels, as well as her juvenilia, unfinished fiction, essays, and poetry. She also reveals new information about Austen's relationship to the abolitionist movement and women's suffrage. Examining the author's legacy, she turns up extraordinary stories about ghost-sightings, Austen novels used as evidence in court, and the eclectic members of the Austen family, whose own outrageous lives are wilder than fiction. Written with warmth and humour, and filled with remarkable details never before published, Wild for Austen is the ultimate tribute to one of the world's most beloved novelists.

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        Children's & YA
        July 2022

        Das Buch der Seelen

        by Mechthild Gläser

        The Book of Souls A "Dorian Gray" story about the power of imagesFor generations, Elsie's family has owned a photography studio. Elsie loves the old cameras and the historic photographs; she is particularly taken with the portrait of the young lord Aidan Storm. Every now and then, she even tells the picture about her worries. What she doesn't know is that he can actually hear her. When Aidan's photo disappears from the album one day, Elsie is inconsolable. But then the young lord suddenly reappears. On Instagram, of all places - and then she meets him in real life.Aidan Storm was born in 1873 and there is a centuries-old curse on his family. With every newborn, a new ghost is born into the world. Aidan sets out to break the curse and recapture the spirits, using the new technology of photography to help him. Until Aidan himself gets captured in a photo that is found 120 years later by John's great-great-granddaughter Elsie. But who has summoned Aidan and the other ghosts that suddenly haunt modern Edinburgh back to reality? And why?Told in two time levels, the story alternates between the perspective of Elsie in modern-day Edinburgh and Aidan at the end of the 19th century. Like in Emma and the Forgotten Book, Mechthild Gläser takes inspiration from a 19th-century classic and brings the portrait of a young man quickly to life, in a modern-day story about the power of images. • Urban fantasy story combined with a tender, humorous love story• The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children• Set in picturesque Edinburgh • By internationally successful Mechthild Gläser (SERAPH Fantasy Award), who has been published in 14 languages

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