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James's OH, WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD.(M.R. James)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20010622
Author:THOMPSON, TERRY W.

The last few decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth have frequently been called the golden age of the English ghost story. Authors on both sides of the Atlantic--but especially in Great Britain--produced supernatural tales at an unprecedented pace and of unmatched subtlety and style. Writers such as Sheridan Le Fanu, M. E. Braddon, F. Marion Crawford, Oliver Onions, and Algernon Blackwood gained tremendous popularity by tapping into the seemingly insatiable public appetite, at the turn of the century, for stories about the otherworldly, the ...

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