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* [[Robert Aickman]] | * [[Robert Aickman]] | ||
* [[Walter De La Mare]] | * [[Walter De La Mare]] | ||
* '''[[Olivia Howard Dunbar]]''' | |||
* '''[[L.P. Hartley]]''' | * '''[[L.P. Hartley]]''' | ||
* '''[[Violet Hunt]]''' | * '''[[Violet Hunt]]''' | ||
* '''[[Vernon Lee]]''' | * '''[[Vernon Lee]]''' | ||
* '''[[Edith Wharton]]''' | * '''[[Edith Wharton]]''' | ||
; Modern examples / practitioners | |||
* '''[[Daphne Du Maurier]]''' | |||
* '''[[M. K. Hobson]]''' ("Oaks Park") | |||
* '''[[Shirley Jackson]], ''[[The Haunting of Hill House]]''''' | |||
* '''[[Joyce Carol Oates]]''' | |||
* '''[[Kit Reed]]''' ("Akbar") | |||
* '''[[Ekaterina Sedia]]''' ("Tin Cans") | |||
* '''[[Carolyn Turgeon]]''' ("La Llorona") | |||
* '''[[Sarah Waters]], ''[[Affinity]]''''' | |||
==Further reading== | |||
* [[Ted Billy]], "'Domesticated with the Horror': Matrimonial Mansions in Edith Wharton's Psychological Ghost Stories", ''Journal of American & Comparative Cultures'', Volume 25, Issue 3-4, pages 433–437, September 2002 ([http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1542-734X.00062/abstract full-text for sale from publisher]) | |||
* [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]], [http://www.violetbooks.com/dunbar.html "The Psychological Ghost Stories of Olivia Howard Dunbar"] (abridged introduction to ''[[The Shell of Sense]]'', a collection of Dunbar's short stories) | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Ghost story]] | * [[Ghost story]] | ||
* [[Gothic]] | |||
* [[Supernatural fiction]] | * [[Supernatural fiction]] | ||
* [[Women and madness in SF]] | * [[Women and madness in SF]] | ||
[[category:Genres]] | [[category:Genres]] | ||
Latest revision as of 17:03, 22 December 2010
The psychological ghost story is a type of ghost story which is particularly told from the protagonist's point of view, and in a way that suggests the protagonist may be an unreliable narrator -- mad or deluded.
Perhaps one of the most famous examples is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1892).
Other examples and writers include (women in bold):
- Charles Dickens, The Signalman (1866)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)
- Oliver Onions, The Beckoning Fair One (1911) [1]
- Robert Aickman
- Walter De La Mare
- Olivia Howard Dunbar
- L.P. Hartley
- Violet Hunt
- Vernon Lee
- Edith Wharton
- Modern examples / practitioners
- Daphne Du Maurier
- M. K. Hobson ("Oaks Park")
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Kit Reed ("Akbar")
- Ekaterina Sedia ("Tin Cans")
- Carolyn Turgeon ("La Llorona")
- Sarah Waters, Affinity
Further reading
- Ted Billy, "'Domesticated with the Horror': Matrimonial Mansions in Edith Wharton's Psychological Ghost Stories", Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, Volume 25, Issue 3-4, pages 433–437, September 2002 (full-text for sale from publisher)
- Jessica Amanda Salmonson, "The Psychological Ghost Stories of Olivia Howard Dunbar" (abridged introduction to The Shell of Sense, a collection of Dunbar's short stories)