"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde / Classics Comic from Britain / Repro - $6 - (Buffalo Grove, IL)
"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde / Classics Comic from Britain / Repro Sold by "The Classics Journal" Magazine This is a photocopy of a Classics Comic from Great Britain (Top Sellers Ltd., original publisher), later reproduced and sold by a US magazine called "The Classics Journal". The original comic was digest sized. Each 8.5" x 11" page in the photocopy contains 2 pages from the original comic. In this story Oscar Wilde satirizes the Gothic and Ghost Story genres, as well as the differences between American and British cultures. In The Canterville Ghost, American immigrant Horace B. Otis and his family move into Canterville Manor despite the warnings of Lord Canterville himself. The house is haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon, who killed his wife there in 1575. Virginia Otis befriends the ghost haunting Canterville Manor. She chastises him for rattling his chains like a stereotypical ghost. She helps him cross over into the afterlife, but never describes what she saw there. Otis's housekeeper claims that the blood stain in the living room dates back to the day of the murder. Otis scoffs at this and cleans it up, but the blood stain reappears the morning after. Later, it's revealed that the ghost used Virginia Otis's paints to recreate the stain. Virginia chastises Sir Simon for stealing the paints, but after talking to him agrees to help him leave the house and travel to another dimension. Virginia returns from their journey unharmed. FOR SALE: Go to my Ebay Store at: http://stores.ebay.com/morbius1 ... to see the over 1000 books, magazines, comics, graphic novels, games, DVDs, and VHS tapes I am selling. The majority of them are sci-fi/fantasy/horror, Hollywood movie books, military history, mystery, sports, nature, science, or boardgames related.
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