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The Supernatural in Fiction
*The Supernatural in Fiction* is an expansion of author Peter Penzoldt's doctoral thesis, which was submitted to the University of Geneva when he was twenty-four.
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*The Supernatural in Fiction* is an expansion of author Peter Penzoldt's doctoral thesis, which was submitted to the University of Geneva when he was twenty-four. Published on the recommendation of Algernon Blackwood, whom Penzoldt met in 1949, it contains chapters on the structure of supernatural tales, on various motifs such as the ghost, the vampire, the werewolf, the witch, on the relationship of the supernatural tale to science fiction, and on the "psychological ghost story". There are also individual chapters on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, M. R. James, Walter de la Mare, and Algernon Blackwood, to whom the book is dedicated.
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