Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia

This is a well‐produced reference book, intended as a support to the critical study of literature in which the supernatural features. Presented in a conventional encyclopedia style, it contains entries for authors, individual works including novels, short stories, poems, films, TV scripts, and some more general articles on themes and motifs, e.g. angels. Film and televisual content is limited to versions of literary works and does not cover the supernatural in those media per se. Length of entries is variable, from a couple of paragraphs (C.S. Lewis) to around 3,000 words (Ramsey Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe), and this is...