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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Supernatural --- Horror comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc

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Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary tradition, but who are not recognized today for their contributions.Between the end of the Civil War and roughly 1930, hundreds of uncanny tales were published by women in the periodical press and in books. These include stories by familiar figures such as Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as by authors almost wholly unknown to twenty-first-century readers, such as Josephine Dodge Bacon, Alice Brown, Emma Frances Dawson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. Focusing on this tradition of female writing offers a corrective to the prevailing belief within American literary scholarship that the uncanny tale, exemplified by the literary productions of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, was displaced after the Civil War by literary realism. Beyond the simple existence of an unacknowledged tradition of uncanny literature by women, Scare Tactics makes a strong case that this body of literature should be read as a specifically feminist literary tradition. Especially intriguing, Weinstock demonstrates, is that women authors repeatedly used Gothic conventions to express discontentment with circumscribed roles for women creating types of political intervention connected to the broader sphere of women's rights activism. Paying attention to these overlooked authors helps us better understand not only the literary marketplace of their time, but also more familiar American Gothicists from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson to Stephen King.

Occultism in literature. --- Horror tales, American --- Ghost stories, American --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Supernatural in literature. --- American fiction --- American ghost stories --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- American women. --- feminist. --- gothic. --- literary tradition. --- supernatural writing. --- uncanny tale. --- women's rights.

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La magie, c'est les tours de passe-passe des champs de foire et les numéros de music-hall, mais d'abord c'est la « pensée magique ». Venue de loin et secrète, elle reste parmi nous comme une « science » des mystères : le désir y est plus fort que les contraintes du réel. Or le cinéma a été et reste proche de la magie sur ces deux registres, et il en tire une grande partie de sa puissance et de son « évidence » culturelles. Ce livre propose une exploration magistrale de ces profondeurs méconnues. Bien au-delà des liens qui unissent avec Méliès le septième art naissant et la prestidigitation, la magie, entre effets spéciaux et création de personnages (vampires, femmes panthères, ...), ne cesse d'occuper cette toile où viennent nous piéger, pour notre plus grand délice, ces modes de pensée dits « archaïques » auxquels nous sommes supposés avoir renoncé. Cette empreinte du magique qui colore passé et présent du cinéma, d'Epstein, Murnau, Dreyer, Welles et Cocteau à Resnais, Oshii, Lynch, Chabrol, Van Sant, ou Weerasethakul, en oriente aussi l'avenir, avec toutes les ressources offertes par les évolutions technologiques.

Cinematography --- Hallucinations and illusions in motion pictures. --- Magic in motion pictures. --- Supernatural in motion pictures. --- Special effects.

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History of civilization --- Esoteric sciences --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Spirits --- Invisible world --- Powers (Christian theology) --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- History --- Europe --- Civilization.

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Spirits – airy, volatile ‘subtle bodies' – occupied a central place in early modern European culture. At the edge of the visible and perceptible, spiritus could signify a broad variety of subtle substances, both natural and divine: the vapours moving inside the body, the elements of air and fire, angels, demons and spectres, the Holy Spirit and the human soul. Spirits functioned as intermediaries between two opposite worlds with continually shifting borders. This book investigates specific meanings and uses of spiritus in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields – physiology, psychology, alchemy, theology, demonology, art theory, music theory, novels and the literature on love – thus revisiting the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change. Contributors include: Wietse de Boer, Sven Dupré, Jennifer Frangos, Axel Christoph Gampp, Christine Göttler, Berthold Hub, Dawn Morgan, Wolfgang Neuber, Bret Rothstein, Rose Marie San Juan, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Justin E. H. Smith, Paul J. Smith, Thijs Weststeijn, and Sarah F. Williams.

Geesten. --- Verbeelding. --- Erscheinungen. --- Geist. --- Geisterglaube. --- Gespenst. --- Spuk. --- Unsichtbarkeit. --- Vision. --- Spirits --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- History. --- Europa (geografie) --- Europe --- Civilization.