” —George Lipsitz“The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.”  —American Studies International“Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book.” —Charles LemertDrawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations.Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Janice Radway is professor of literature at Duke University.

    Eager to begin a new life there with Luke, her husband, and Tom, her small son, she is also impatient to find out about her newly discovered family who lived there for generations.But not long after they move in, Tom wakes screaming at night. Joss hears echoing voices and senses an invisible presence, watching her from the shadows. Are they spirits from the past? Or is she imagining them? As she learns, with mounting horror, of Belheddon's tragic and dramatic history, her fear grows very real, for she realises that both her family and her own sanity are at the mercy of a violent and powerful energy which seems beyond anyone's control.

    This is a collection of three works by Shirley Jackson: the novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle and the short story, "The Lottery".

    Sadly, the majority of his short stories have been unavailable for some time. Now this welcome volume, the first of three, brings together more than 40 stories written between 1895 and 1926, including "The Riddle and Other Stories, Ding Dong Bell, The Connoisseur and Other Stories, Kismet, " and 14 other previously uncollected pieces.<>Contents of Short Stories 1895-1926 : (1) The Riddle and Other Stories (1923): The Almond Tree; The Count's Courtship; The Looking-Glass; Miss Duveen; Selina's Parable; Seaton's Aunt; The Bird of Travel; The Bowl; The Three Friends; Lispet, Lispett and Vaine; The Tree; Out of the Deep; The Creatures; The Riddle; The Vats. (2) Ding Dong Bell (1924): Lichen; Benighted; Strangers and Pilgrims; Winter. (3) The Connoisseur and Other Stories (1926): Mr Kempe; Missing; The Connoisseur; Disillusioned; The Nap; Pretty Poll; All Hallows; The Wharf; The Lost Track. (4) Uncollected stories: Kismet; The Hangman Luck; A Mote; The Village of Old Age; The Moon's Miracle; The Giant; De Mortuis; The Rejection of the Rector; The Match-Maker; The Budget; The Pear-Tree; Leap Year; Promise at Dusk; Two Days in Town.

    

    

    

    She has to go home to her normal parents, her witch twin, Terry, and her magic teacher, Natalya, to figure out where she's going from here. While she was gone, her parents ran into trouble, and her twin turned to the dark powers. And Air keeps whispering strange things to her, instructions she must follow.

    Certainly he finds plenty of ghosts throughout the Bluegrass State, and it seems there are no limitations to the variety of incidents encountered. In most stories of this genre, some happening from the past is interjected into the life of someone in a later time period. The reverse is experienced by Jamie Stidham, a pilot who flies his plane through a cloud bank -- and 200 years back in time -- for a surprise landing. Daniel Boone was just as bewildered as the pilot!Inhabitants of the "shadow-world" may appear anywhere. The Kentucky coal mines harbor their share of manifestations, with balls of light and apparitions being seen by numerous miners. Many of the spirits are benevolent, having played a role in saving lives and guiding trapped miners to safety. There are tales of haunted houses, cemeteries and gravestones, roads and tunnels, along with disappearing soldiers, Indians, animals, and even ghostly trees. But there is so much more -- a total of seventy-five narratives "of the sixth dimension" or, some might say, close encounters of the sixth kind.

    Never before have ghostly encounters been so alluring, thanks to a cast of otherworldly characters well acquainted with the pleasures of the flesh. Amarantha Knight, the woman behind the popular Darker Passions series, has gathered a stellar roster of chilling talent, including Brian Lumley , Thomas S. Roche, Edo van Belkom, Kyle Stone, Michael A. Arnzen, Ron Dee & Lois H. Gresh, Brian McNaughton, Benoit Bisson, Nancy Kilpatrick, Karen E. Taylor, Gemma Files, John Mason Skipp

    Travelers sometimes have to move in the fourth dimension. Randy McNutt takes us on an eccentric travel trip to dozens of Ohio ghost towns, uncovering tattooed chickens, legendary daredevils, swamp ghosts, milkmen who delivered milk and whiskey, and a fella who bit off his mother-in-law's ear. Handsome pen and ink illustrations.

    It's cold, unwelcoming and haunted. Who is the evil-looking ghost tormenting Lizzie, and why does he want to hurt her?

    This volume brings together a lively selection of ghost stories by women writers who use the genre to reveal and challenge prevailing cultural discourses on the nature and status of women. Depicting marriage, motherhood, female sexuality, spinsterhood, widowhood, and the intersection of madness and medical practice, the authors displace their critiques of dominant ideologies onto the supernatural, thus shielding themselves from critical recrimination. Their evocative works provide an invaluable resource for insights into women's writing and lives.Originally published in popular magazines, the twenty-two stories in this collection are set in all corners of the United States and were written by a range of authors known and unknown, including Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston. Whether depicting a servant who helps save the reputation of her master's dead first wife, a ghostly mother who haunts a stranger until he agrees to adopt her orphaned daughter, or a ghost who revisits her beloved husband only to discover his long-standing preference for her sister, these tales possess great psychological richness and offer first-rate entertainment even as they explore the social and psychological realities of women's lives. Each story is preceded by a biographical headnote.

    A walk before dinner turns into a visit back to the year 1936. Belleville, Ontario, is about to experience a devastating flood. Will Rafe and his cousin, Edie, be able to warn the city in time?

    As a response to each story, Cohen offers an explanation of what possibly may have occurred.