... To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death."69 With The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain tells the story of a "white trash" boy, a runaway slave, and their escape to freedom. This may not sound like a novel having anything to do with the supernatural, but "much of the choicest weird work [has] fragments scattered through material whose massed effect ... once seen his face."88 The early- to mid-twentieth century American fiction is sparsely populated with mystery and wonders, but the few than remain are jewels of their own kind. In O...

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