"The Ghostly Rental" is a brilliantly written ghost story with a twist and many allusions. A 22-year-old takes up his studies in Cambridge. One day, he takes a shortcut home, sees a mysterious, gloomy mansion, and thinks this house must be haunted. He meets an older man, Captain Diamond, and discovers his tragic secret. When the older man falls ill, the boy is to visit the haunted house on his behalf of him. Will he meet the ghost there?

Employing the subtle methods of presenting mysterious ghost stories in the backdrop of psychological troubles, the novel presents the life of James. The troubles that he faces, combined with the baffling events around him give an aura to the novel that is almost unsurpassable....

The importance of ghosts, and liminal experience in general, in the fiction of Henry James.

Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. This edition includes all ten of his tales in this genre.

Henry James (1843-1916), was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. He significantly contributed to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. He is one of the major figures of trans-Atlantic literature. His works include The American (1877), Daisy Miller (1878), Confidence (1879), A Bundle of Letters (1879), The Author of Beltraffio (1884), The Bostonians (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Awkward Age (1899), and The Ambassadors (1903).

The ghost story 1840-1920: A cultural history examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century. By relating the ghost story to economic, national, colonial and gendered contexts' it provides a critical re-evaluation of the period. The conjuring of a political discourse of spectrality during the nineteenth century enables a culturally sensitive reconsideration of the work of writers including Dickens, Collins, Charlotte Riddell, Vernon Lee, May Sinclair, Kipling, Le Fanu, Henry James and M.R. James. Additionally, a chapter on the interpretation of spirit messages reveals how issues relating to textual analysis were implicated within a language of the spectral. This book is the first full-length study of the British ghost story in over 30 years and it will be of interest to academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduates working on the Gothic, literary studies, historical studies, critical theory and cultural studies.

We return for another selection of 25 ghost stories in the classic tradition -- chosen from the vast storehouse of history's fiction for your personal delectation. As in our last meeting, we remind you that there are many kinds of ghosts, from the kind to cruel, the savage to the sad, and readers should not always assume they know just which they've gotten in any particular tale. Included are: THE SEVENTH MAN, by A.T. Quiller-Couch THE PHANTOM COACH, by Amelia B. Edwards AT THE DIP OF THE ROAD, by Mary Louisa Molesworth A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE, by Charlotte Riddell THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL, by Edith Wharton A PAIR OF HANDS, by A.T. Quiller-Couch THE GHOST IN ALL THE ROOMS, by Daniel Defoe THE MYSTERY OF THE SEMI-DETACHED, by Edith Nesbit THE GHOSTLY RENTAL, by Henry James THE SOUL OF LAPLOSHKA, by Saki THE OLD HOUSE IN VAUXHALL WALK THE GHOST IN THE MILL, by Harriet Beecher Stowe JOHN GRANGER, by Mary E. Braddon AN ITINERANT HOUSE, by Emma Frances Dawson THE PHANTOM MODEL: A WAPPING ROMANCE, by Hume Nisbet THE BEGGAR WOMAN OF LOCARNO, by Heinrich von Kleist A SET OF CHESSMEN, by Richard Marsh IN THE CONFESSIONAL, by Amelia B. Edwards M. ANASTASIUS by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik THE DOOMED MAN, by Dick Donovan THE GHOST-SHIP, by Richard Middleton A GHOST-CHILD, by Bernard Capes THE SAND-WALKER, by Fergus Hume THE UNDERGROUND GHOST, by John Berwick Harwood H.P., by Sabine Baring-Gould If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 200+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!