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[edit] Large edits

As explanation for the large edits I just made - many assertions here relied on weasel words, and also many ghost stories and authors are not notable enough to deserve a spot in the Introduction section, See Also section, etc. If we mention them there, then too many ghost stories and authors will be allowed to slip in. Before a revert, please ask me for an explanation, as this draft is still not so great, but it is a step in the right direction. Or just be bold and go to work. Mojei (talk) 23:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Nothing's changed in a while, and everything's got a reference assigned to it now. I think I can safely take away the "citations needed" flag. Mojei (talk) 01:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Is the Types stuff from Jack Sullivan?

I'm putting this snippet here because I think the uncited stuff in the Types section is from that Jack Sullivan source at the bottom. Notice all the references to Fanu. Mojei (talk) 23:34, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

There is an extensive critical analysis of the work of several English ghost story writers in Jack Sullivan's 1978 book Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood.

Looks like it [1]. I put it in as the reference. The other citations needed might come from it, but it's hard to be sure without reading it, so I'll leave those. Mojei (talk) 23:54, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't know the merits of Sullivan's book or whether it is being cited here correctly, but to place Le Fanu as a "traditional" writer and not as a "psychological" writer is absurd; the story cited in the article, "Green Tea," exactly fits the "psychological" story's definition. The "ghost" does virtually nothing while the protagonist's mental decay is recorded in detail by a proto-psychologist--typical for Le Fanu's work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.229.114 (talk) 23:28, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

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[edit] Large edits

[edit] Is the Types stuff from Jack Sullivan?

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