Word: ghosting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brothers James recorded their visions. Surely horror should have become an outdated category by now. Surely science should have driven a stake through its heart. But, no, the genre is, in every sense, the home of the undead. In the '40s Critic Edmund Wilson mused about the persistence of ghost stories: "What is the reason, then -- in these days when a lonely country house is likely to be equipped with electric light, radio and telephone -- for our returning to these antiquated tales? . . . First, the longing for mystic experience which seems always to manifest itself in periods of social confusion . . . Second...
...replaced by Firestarter (1980), Cujo (1981), a nonfiction investigation of horror called Danse Macabre (1981), and a collection of novellas, Different Seasons (1982). In his spare time he turned out Christine and Pet Sematary (both 1983) by himself, and The Talisman (1984) in collaboration with Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story. Another collection of short stories appeared in 1985. And still that did not exhaust King. Because publishers were wary of overkill, he submitted five other novels under another name. When Richard Bachman's cover was blown, after Thinner climbed aboard the best-seller list, the pretense was shelved...
News Editors for this Issue: Victoria G.T. Bassetti '86-'87 Night Editors: Kristin A. Goss '87 Matthew H. Joseph '88 Copy Editor: Casper the Friendly Ghost '90 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Photo Editor: Lisa Clark '89 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse...
...Viet Nam, Hemingway came to seem an atavistic character who loved the wrong things: violence and war. But Hemingway's reputation as a writer has survived, and grown. Public interest in the man and his work persists in an age that might be expected to forget the long-vanished ghost of the grandfather of Margaux and Mariel Hemingway. His publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, estimates that 1 million Hemingway books are sold each year in the U.S. alone. In the past year, a major new biography by Jeffrey Meyers has appeared, as well as a memoir by his son Jack...
...sprang from its deathbed and caught the world's attention once again. After nine days of tense meetings in Geneva, the cartel adopted a plan to slash its daily oil production by some 17% in the hope of driving prices back up. The move, like the appearance of a ghost, both surprised and disconcerted the industrial nations and gave at least a temporary morale boost to the world's petroleum producers...