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Excerpt from A Strange Story and the Haunted and the Haunters
To the highest form of romantic narrative, the Epic, crit ics', indeed, have declared that a supernatural machinery is indispensable. That the Drama has availed itself of the same license as the Epic, it would be unnecessary to say to the countrymen of Shakspeare, or to the generation that is yet, studying the enigmas of Goethe's Faust. Prose Roinance has immemorially asserted, no less than. The Epic or the Drama, its heritage in the Realm of the Marvellous. The interest which attaches to the supernatural is sought in the earliest Prose Romance which modern times.take fromvthe' ancient, and which, perhaps, had its origin in the lost Novels of Miletus 1 and the right to invoke such in terest has, ever since, been maintained by Romance through all varieties of form and fancy, - from the majestic epopee of Télémaque to the graceful fantasies of Undine, or the mighty mockeries of Gulliver's Travels down to such comparatively commonplace elements of wonder, as yet preserve from oblivion The Castle 'of Otranto and thetold English Baron.
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