In conclusion, it might be said that fiction offers the most popular present vehicle for expression of the undoubtedly reviving supernaturalism in English literature. And fiction is likewise the best form, that which affords the more varied chances for effectiveness. The rising tide of the unearthly in art shows itself in all literary forms, as dramatic, narrative, and lyric poetry, with a few epics--in the playlet as in the standard drama, in the short story as in the novel. It manifests itself in countless ways in current literature and inviting lines of investigation suggest themselves with reference to various aspects of its study. The supernatural as especially related to religion offers an interesting field for research. The miracles from the Bible are often used, as in Lew Wallace's _Ben Hur_, and Christ is introduced in other times and places, as the war novel,[248] or in Marie Corelli's satire on Episcopacy,[249] where the cardinal finds the Christ child outside the cathedral. The more than mortal elements, as answers to prayer, the experience of conversion, spiritual miracles, and so forth, are present to a considerable extent in modern fiction. Two very recent novels of importance base their plots on the miraculous in religion, _The Brook Kerith_, by George Moore, and _The Leather-wood God_, by William Dean Howells. I have touched on this aspect of the subject in a previous article.[250] [248] _The Second Coming._ [249] _The Master Christian._ [250] "Religion in Recent American Novels," in the January, 1914, _Review and Expositor_. One might profitably trace out the appearances of the ghostly in modern poetry, or one might study its manifestations in the late drama, including melodrama and comedy as well as tragedy. This present treatment of the supernatural in modern English fiction makes no pretensions to being complete. It is meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive, and I shall be gratified if it may help to arouse further interest in a significant and vital phase of our literature and lead others to pursue the investigations. INDEX A _Accusing Spirit, The_, 21 _Address to the De'il, An_, 131 Æsop, _Fables_, 231 _Affair of Dishonor, An_, 91 _Afterwards_, 102, 202 _Afterwards_, 302 Ahasuerus, 176 _Ahrinziman_, 88, 183, 213 Aids to Gothic Effect, 36 _et seq._ Ainsworth, W. H., 181 _Albigenses, The_, 9, 11, 94, 168, 288 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 63 ---- _Miss Mehitabel's Son_, 68, 85, 287 ---- _Père Antoine's Date Palm_, 63 ---- _Queen of Sheba, The_, 122