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Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden and Georg Schock and Richard Rice and Howard Pyle and Madelene Yale Wynne and Harriet Lewis Bradley and Hildegarde Hawthorne and M.E.M. Davis and F.D. Millet and Henry Mills Alden and Henry…
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk is a work by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden and Georg Schock and Richard Rice and Howard Pyle and Madelene Yale Wynne and Harriet Lewis Bradley and Hildegarde Hawthorne and M.E.M. Davis and F.D. Millet and Henry Mills Alden and Henry Alden. Its subjects include American Short stories.
From the opening pages: “The writers of American short stories, the best short stories in the world, surpass in nothing so much as in their handling of those filmy textures which clothe the vague shapes of the borderland between experience and illusion. This is perhaps because our people, who seem to live only in the most tangible things of material existence, really live more in the spirit than any other. Their love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry, but is apparently an effect from psychological influences in the past, widely separated in time and place. It is as noticeable among our Southerners of French race as among our New-Englanders deriving from Puritan zealots accustomed to wonder-working providences, or among those descendants of the German immigrants who brought with them to our Middle States the superstitions of the Rhine valleys or the Hartz Mountains. It is something that has tinged the nature of our…”
