The Supernatural in Fiction

Peter Penzoldt

first published 1952

*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...

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