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ITT I rank the masters of the English Ghost Story
| startled magical giraffe | 12/07/25 |
| startled magical giraffe | 01/20/26 |
| mind-boggling hell | 01/21/26 |
| Misanthropic floppy roast beef | 01/20/26 |
| startled magical giraffe | 01/20/26 |
| Misanthropic floppy roast beef | 01/20/26 |
| startled magical giraffe | 01/20/26 |
| Misanthropic floppy roast beef | 01/20/26 |
| startled magical giraffe | 01/21/26 |
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Date: December 7th, 2025 8:28 PM Author: startled magical giraffe 1. MR James 2. Algernon Blackwood 3. Robert Aickman 4. Henry James 5. Sheridan Le Fanu |
Date: January 20th, 2026 12:52 PM Author: startled magical giraffe another criminally underrated OYT masterpiece thread. for shame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807682&forum_id=2#49603626) |
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Date: January 21st, 2026 9:59 AM Author: mind-boggling hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807682&forum_id=2#49605843) |
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Date: January 20th, 2026 12:55 PM Author: Misanthropic floppy roast beef I think this is right. Where would you put HR Wakefield and William Hope Hodgson? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807682&forum_id=2#49603634) |
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Date: January 20th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: startled magical giraffe not familiar with Wakefield tbh but I would classify Hodsgon as more of a Weird Fiction/sci-fi writer. Blackwood too, but a lot of his output was in line with the Victorian ghost story tradition. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807682&forum_id=2#49603645) |
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Date: January 20th, 2026 1:06 PM Author: Misanthropic floppy roast beef That’s fair with respect to Hodgson (he is more Weird than pure ghost) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807682&forum_id=2#49603658) |
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Date: January 20th, 2026 6:27 PM Author: startled magical giraffe are you a Turn of the Screw scholar? Admittedly I've only read it once but I'm a little confused as to why it is the most discussed/debated/controversial ghost story. It doesn't seem all THAT ambiguous imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807682&forum_id=2#49604612) |
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Date: January 20th, 2026 6:33 PM Author: Misanthropic floppy roast beef I only read it once but I loved it. His other ghost stories are good too (as are his novels; I still need to finish Portrait of a Lady but I liked it, and I loved The Bostonians)
I have a middle of the road interpretation which is that she killed the kid but that the ghosts were real to a certain extent or else that she had latent psychic abilities which allowed her to "see" things from the past
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Date: January 21st, 2026 9:58 AM Author: startled magical giraffe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807682&forum_id=2#49605838) |