Quotes by : Howard Kerr

(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from....

But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with....

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural....

Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov....

In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the....

(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that....