The course aims to provide students with an overview of the history, methods and essential issues of comparative literature studies. Tools will be offered to develop a critical attitude towards literary texts: the ability to ask questions about their forms and contents; the ability to place them in their context of reference; the ability to relate them to other texts in a thematic, formal, historical and cultural sense. The course will provide an in-depth investigation perspective on the forms of the literary supernatural in the 20th century, also understood in an intermediate key in some of its ramifications in cinema, TV series, comics. Some pivotal authors of supernatural fiction will be analysed, with particular reference to the second part of the twentieth century through the reading of some of their most famous texts. The primary bibliography will be analysed in the light of the theoretical and comparative tools (Orlando, Ceserani, de Cristofaro) indicated as secondary bibliography.