Papers on Language & Literature, September 22nd, 2003
The last few decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth have often been described as "the golden age of the English ghost story" (Cox and Gilbert xiii). This was a rarified time "when authors excelled themselves at producing" highly literate and learned tales of the otherworldly and the uncanny (Lamb 10). Celebrated writers like Mary Elizabeth Braddon ("The Shadow in the Corner"), M. R. James ("Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"), Oliver Onions ("The Beckoning Fair One"), Arthur Machen ("The Great God Pan"), and a host of other well dressed, upper-crust author...
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