I remember the "Wholesale" story vaguely; I need to recheck the book out.

Oh, gee, what onerous homework for this weekend! What's the name of the collection -- is it "Smoke and Mirrors?"

I've glad you guys like the idea for the site, although I'm nervous: the only coding I've done is the tags on here! But I suppose I can do Dreamweaver or something; there are plenty of juicy Buffista brains to pick in August.

I have to take a Stats class this summer. I will not be thinking about fall classes until after I ride THAT dragon. Ugh.

Maybe the one...it's called something like "We Can Get It For You Wholesale", but I think I'm conflating it.

I love that one. It's in my copy of Neverwhere.

isn't there also a Philip K. Dick story with a very similar title

"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," upon which Total Recall was based.

What's the name of the collection -- is it "Smoke and Mirrors?"

Yes.

There's a short story collection I have, with young adult short stories of the supernatural variety. It's called Short Circuits. "Ethan Unbound," by Gary L. Blackwood, might work. It takes place in a library.

M.F.K. Fisher's "The Lost, Strayed, Stolen" is my ultimate ghost story. When I went to see if it was available, I found it was in The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories, which has some other great stuff. There's also Poe ("The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Masque of the Red Death"), Ray Bradbury and M.R. James, pretty much the father of modern ghost story.

"The Supernatural in Literature."

Gothic novels, e.g., The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho, or The Italian.

Poe is on my list -- the one that's written down at home, not the malfunctioning one ni my head. Cool.

BB, if I do a novel, it would have to be a short one. The unit would be about 6 weeks long.

BB, if I do a novel, it would have to be a short one.

Is Dracula too long? Because there's the whole Victorian terror of female sexuality as a subtext.

I forgot it was a short section. Those are sexy novels, but pretty dense. Bright students will like them.

Erin, where do you live again? KCK?

I took a class on the Gothic in American Literature, so I'm pulling from that when I ask if "The Yellow Wallpaper" would work. There's nothing overtly supernatural, I guess, but there's that vibe.

As for ghost movies, anything but The Haunted Mansion.

Oh, crap - I'm getting senile. Polter-Cow put me in mind of this.

Algernon Blackwood?

Hey y'all--just popping in to say that even if I haven't read things in here, or don't immediately go read things people recommend, I'm still glad I read this thread--stupidly, yesterday, I checked my baggage while the book I planned to read was STILL IN IT. Argh. So I was running around the Dallas Fort Worth airport trying to find a book to read, and saw some Nevada Barr mysteries that I remembered y'all talking about, so took a chance and bought one ("Deep South"). Quite good! Am planning to look for more next time I hit the used bookstore...