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Readers Report: Haunted
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Haunted.”
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The Ghost and the Ghost Writer
Patience Worth was the author of several critically-acclaimed novels and poems, often published in journals and anthologies alongside canonical authors like Edna St. Vincent Millay. She was also a ghost. The Public Domain Review tells the strange tale of Patience…
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Word of the Day: Eidolism
(n.); belief in ghosts; etymology difficult to trace, but typically attributed to the Greek eidolon (“image, apparition, phantom, ghost”) There was something else in the house, unmentioned and unlabelled. A sort of shadowy presence that hovered by the back door.…
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A Ghost Story’s Ghost Story
Everyone loves a good ghost story, and one of the most popular ghost stories in the Chinese literary canon is that of Li Huiniang, a cruelly executed concubine who fights for justice from beyond the grave. At the Appendix, Maggie Greene…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #40: Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation with a Ghost Hunter
My sister is six years younger, and as kids we never got along. In high school, I went through a phase that involved a lot of sneaking out to drink coffee and do pink-hearts with my friends. I had to…