But the recurrent ambiguity of the American.... : Quote by Howard Kerr

“ But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and a perplexity about whether there was, in fact, anything numinous to be experienced. Writers often delighted in leading readers into, but not out of, the haunted dusk of the borderland. ”

Howard Kerr
  • From : The Haunted Dusk
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