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The given article addresses the issue of Jewish text in the literary production of a contemporary Canadian writer of Latvian origin - David Bezmozgis – focusing on representation of Latvian segment in the collection of his short stories Natasha and Other Stories (2004). Publication of the said collection alongside with his other works (The Free World (2011), The Betrayers (2014)) has aroused great interest among common readers and literary scholars, who in their critical notes consider his works mainly through t...

Shirley Jackson is an author of many fictional and semi-fictional texts and had a great interest in the supernatural. Her novel “The Haunting of Hill House” (1959) is praised by many horror fiction writers, such as Stephen King, as one of the great novels of supernatural in the last hundred years. The notion of the literary genre of horror is based on the effect it produces on the reader: it provokes the reader’s emotional and/or physical response, such as fear, anxiety, revulsion, etc., by exposing him or he...