Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four mystery novels in this collection. It kept Thackeray reading all through one night although Collins used neither professional sleuth nor police to unravel his chilly horrors. "In our own over-specialized, disintegrated times," notes Editor Maurice Richardson, "there are the rigid categories of detective story, thriller, and ghost story, with several subdivisions to each . . , but in the last century they could all be lumped together as Tales of Mystery and Imagination." Along with The Woman in White in Editor Richardson's omnibus are Robert Louis Stevenson's* famed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Notting Hill Mystery...
...quiet sketching of the period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...
...dismember" the country. But there were signs that the Russians might compromise. Molotov, suggesting that the Germans themselves fix the degree of federalization, proposed that the old Weimar Constitution be used as a basis for a new one. This drew immediate objections. Cried France's Bidault: "The ghost of the Weimar Republic will not find favor with the French people...
...newcomers, Benjamin Franklin Stapleton, 73, seems one of the most ineffectual old men in the rambling, shady-city of Denver. He dreads change. He falls asleep at public meetings, mumbles in monosyllables and exudes a little less social warmth than Marley's ghost. He does not smoke or drink and has never been known to swear. Beyond these traits the other fact for newcomers to learn is that Ben Stapleton is Denver's mayor...
...find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer's terror results, first of all, in some effectively staged ghost fear: Nath's exploration of the dark, wind-lashed, screaming woods. As the youngsters keep exploring, they are warned off by bullets. When Farmer Robinson's sister (Judith Anderson) is killed, his mind goes to pieces and so, to some extent, does an otherwise good movie...