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The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts
The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts
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People are drawn to ghost stories because they provide an adrenaline rush and can reveal deeper truths about our inner selves. This collection of ghost stories from various regions and authors explores recurring themes and imagery, leaving room for interpretation. The decisive moment often comes when someone makes a "wrong turning," leading to encounters with mysterious nemesis.
Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 05 October 2021
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Why do people love ghost stories, even if they don't believe (or say they don't believe) in ghosts? Is it simply the adrenaline rush that comes from being mesmerized and terrified by a great storyteller, or do these tales yield deeper meanings—telling us things about our own inner shadows?
Stephen Johnson brings together some of the most memorable encounters with ghosts in world literature, from Europe, Russia, the United States, and China. Recurring themes and imagery are noted, interpretations suggested—but only suggested, since ambiguity and resistance to rational interpretation are key elements in the best ghost stories.
As the writer Robert Aickman observed, often the decisive moment comes when someone, somehow, makes a "wrong turning"—literally, perhaps, but at the same time psychologically, even morally—and some mysterious nemesis takes over. Old favorites by M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman are interlaced with extracts from longer works by Emily Brontë, Henry James, and Alexander Pushkin, along with slightly left-field apparitions from Tove Jansson and Flann OBrien.
With such expert guides, who knows what we will be led to encounter in the haunted chambers of our minds?
Weight: 266g
Dimension: 122 x 191 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912559305
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