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A Halloween reader : poems, stories, and plays from Halloweens past / edited by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne.
- Title
- A Halloween reader : poems, stories, and plays from Halloweens past / edited by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne.
- Publication
- Gretna, La. : Pelican, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS509.H29 H35 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt.
- Description
- 272 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The literature of Halloween began in a time when poets, playwrights, and storytellers told tales inspired by fear of fate, the unknown, and the inexplicable--stories about dead souls and otherworldly creatures who drifted through the dark only on Halloween, when the spirit world seemed close enough to touch. This sourcebook of Halloween lore spans British, Irish, Scottish, French, Canadian, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, from Robert Burns, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce to Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, and H.P. Lovecraft. Each of the poems, stories, and plays in this anthology provides a link to Halloween celebrations of the past. Treasures abound, such as a rare Halloween mention in a colonial American play and a French journalist's retelling of a night spent amongst the bones of a Breton charnel house. The "Hallowoddities" section includes witch-trial testimony, journal entries, and other spooky pieces related to Halloween."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Literary collections
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Black stairs on fire / Patrick Kennedy -- The child that went with the fairies / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- All Souls' Eve in Lower Brittany / Anatole le Braz -- Red Hanrahan / W.B. Yeats -- The feast of Samhain / James Stephens -- The fiend's field. A legend of the Wrekin / Anonymous -- Reality or delusion? / Mrs. Henry Wood -- Ken's mystery / Julian Hawthorne -- The face in the glass, a Halloween sketch / Letitia Virginia Douglas -- Man-size in marble / Edith Nesbit -- A Hallowe'en party / Caroline Ticknor -- Clay / James Joyce.
- ISBN
- 1589801768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004014559
- OCLC
- 55948039
- SCSB-10750700
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library