... AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS 'ANGELA CARTER £1399. CHATTO& WINDUS jronic reconstruction of “tigerness” as refracted through centuries of culture. It is, if you like, a “fake” tiger, a “false” tiger, a tiger built like a golem. As an abstract ...

... A CAR SPECTRE. American ghosts, observes the Globe, have almost reached their neplus ultra of eccentricity. The drivers and conductors on a tramway in Detroit have been frightened out of the few wits they possess by tbe spectre of a lady who mysteriously ...

... representations of tigers in literature, in myth, in art. It is not a concrete ‘tiger, ‘but an growing interest in the American ghosts of Puritanism, of Hollywood, of slavery, of Indian, Hmmemd European culture, the of her second half, Old World Wonders ...

... tion, from dominant narrative to portraiture in Black Venus, a pivotal book of sorts, through the posthumously published American Ghosts & Old World Wonders — eschewing fantasy worlds, while fastening on reality, plucking the inscape of that reality from ...

... RXIIIBITION IN BLACK WHIM—The Zulu War. TEXT.— Consider the Truant and be wise. IMMIATCRIAL JOTS.—The pleasures of an American Ghosts' Ball. FOR ONLY.—There is a talk of establishing a Six Days' Talking Contest. POR • BAOMAN.—A Ci-gar-rulous fellow. ...

... day” when she created her own legend (The Fall River Axe Murders). These, and the stories in the posthumous collection, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, are hybrids of tale and critical essay, a reminder that Carter was also one of the finest discursive ...

... mysterious to me . .. and I imagine him with an intelligence nourished only by the black book of the father, and hence AMERICAN GHOSTS & OLD WORLD WONDERS B Angela Carter: Chatto & Windus, £13.99 . cruelly circumscribed, yet dense with allusion, seeing ...

... will be wanted this side Christmas. (Laughter.) The Court adjourned at live nveutes after four o'clock. A CAR SPECTRE. American ghosts, observe. the Moir. have almost retched their He plus ultra of e !centricity. The drivers and c,incuctors on a tramway ...

... AN AMERICAN GHOST. The town of Blissville. in Long Island, has been thrown into a state of high excitement by the appearance in its street*, after dark, of a ghost. Such appearances are common in the United States that the matter would not merit comment ...

... AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY. The inhabitants of Seymour (U.S.) and vicinity are said *o be much exercised in mind over the existence in that town of veritable naunted house, and those who have occasion to pass the place after nightfall do so with quickened ...

... AMERICAN GHOST STORY. The Troy Press is responsible for the following ghost story :—There is house standing on the old canal near Fort Ann, the family residing which have frequently heard strange noises about the house, such as raps, moving of chairs ...

... AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY. Sarah Maria Williams six months ago died suddenly in place known as Williamsburg aud Pochuck, two miles south-weit of Newburg, N.Y. Her hus' and, Noah Williams, had been confined to his bed through sickness. The circumstance ...