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Old 28th June 2008, 05:18 PM   #147 (permalink)
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Re: General Weird discusion thread

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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington View Post
That's largely because one of those pieces, "The Turn of the Screw", is one of the most notable ghost stories ever written; certainly the figures of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel are difficult to forget... even if they are ghosts in a somewhat different sense than usual....

All of James' ghostly tales were collected into a single, moderately-sized volume back in 1949: The Ghostly Tales of Henry James....
Thats good to know. I was wondering what ghost stories he is famous for.


The name of Robert Louis Stevenson story you wondered about in the reading thread is The Body Snatcher.
A title that gives me hope about the macabre in the story
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