A Revenant (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Plot: Ghost story
- Time of Work: 1932
- Setting: Wigston, England
- Principal Characters: Professor Monk, The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, The Reverend Mr. Mortimer, A young girl
- Genres: Short fiction, Ghost story
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Literature, Ghosts or apparitions, Poetry or poets, Lectures or lecturing
- Locales: England
The Story
Though the title “A Revenant” proclaims that this is a ghost story—and it is—it reads more like an essay, a discourse more on ideas than on events or characters. In this aspect, the story's structure is twofold: It is a duel of intellects between Professor Monk and the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, the professor's assertions about Poe followed by Poe's rebuttal. The story is also a study of Professor Monk—limited as his character is by academic habits of mind and waffling prudery—and as such its structure, like the professor's lecture, is fourfold: a lengthy...
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