Marathon Reading: Halloween Ghost stories
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What Was this?
A non-stop reading of Ghost stories over a 20 hour period. Students, faculty, alumni, staff, administrators, and guests will read from our favorite ghost and other scary stories.
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Why did you do it?
Why not? Halloween and ghost stories go together and we love an excuse to read and have others read to us. Then there's our delight at the power of the word to shock, scare, awaken, empower, and change those who encounter
it . . . oh, and we thought it would be fun! .....................................................................................
When did it happen?
9:00 pm October 30th, 
to 5:00 pm
October 31st, 2008
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Where was it?
 
in the University Center main lounge

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Who do I talk to about this?
Prof. Sandra Jamieson, English Dept.
    408-3499, sjamieso@drew.edu
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What did you read?
We started with Beowulf and ended with García Marquéz. See the full list:

Reading list

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What we read

Author
Title
Beowulf
Grendel’s Approach to Heorot
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Beowulf’s fight with Grendel
Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White, Ch 4
Charles Dickens
“The Signal Man”
Erckmann-Chatrian
“The Murderer’s Violin”
Mary Shelly
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Ch 1
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Ch 5
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Ch 22
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Ch 23
Robert Aickman
“The Unsettled Dust”
Sandy Grey
" . . . . "
unknown
“The man not in the picture frame: A true Drew Story"
Anne Sexton
“The Ghost”
Mary Louise Counselman
“The House of Shadows”
Elinor Mordaunt
“The Landlady”
Ogden Nash
“Victoria”
Edger Allen Poe
“A Tale of the Ragged Mountains"
Edith Lichty Stewart
“The Sixth Tree”
Tennessee Williams
“The Mysteries of the Joy Rio"
Virginia Woolf
“A Haunted House”
Joyce Carol Oates
“The Others”
Edgar Allen Poe
“The Black Cat”
Neil Gaimon
Coroline
Joan Aiken ??
Robert Tressell
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, extract
Washington Irving
“The Adventures of the German Student”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The Body Snatchers”
Mavis Gallant
“Up North”
Edith Wharton
“Miss Mary Pask”
Margaret Wise Brown
“The Fierce Little Pumpkin”
Edith Wharton
“Hand in Glove”
A. S. Byatt
“July’s Ghost”
Melissa Pritchard
“Spirit Seizures”
Penelope Lively
“Revenant as Typewriter”
Thomas Grey
“Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”
Judeth Ross Enderle & Stephanie Gordon Tessler
“Six Creepy Sheep”
Ezekial
“The Body of Dry Bones”
Margaret Wise Brown
“The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin”
Superintendent of Elections
“Official General Election Sample Ballot"
Jean Rhys
“I Used to Live Here Once”
Henry James
“The Jolly Corner”
Robert Frost
“The Witch of Koos”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
V.S. Pritchett
“A Story of Don Juan”
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange, Ch 4, (part 2)
George Mackay Brown
“Andrina”
Rebecca West
“The Grey Men”
Edgar Allen Poe
“The Tell Tale Heart”
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“The Raven”
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“Annabelle Lee”
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“To my mother”/”Sonnet to my Mother”
Philip Levine
“You Can Cry”
Laurell K. Hamilton
‘Those who seek forgiveness”
Gabriel García Márquez (trans Gregory Rabassa)
“The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”
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Some of the list of readings was lost when the computer crashed . . . if what you read is not included here, please let us know so we can add it. We'd like to have an accurate record if possible! (email Sandra Jamieson at sjamieso@drew.edu)



Open to ALL readers and listeners HUMAN or OTHERWISE . . . GHOSTS WELCOME!
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SCREAM, SHAKE, FEEL THE GOOSEBUMPS -- AND ENJOY YOURSELF!
BRING YOUR FRIENDS (YOU KNOW YOU WON'T WANT TO WALK HOME ALONE)
REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE

PRIZES FOR THE BEST COSTUMES!

This event is Organized by the faculty and students of the Drew University English Department
   
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