Author: Paul Guernsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781105772214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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This vibrant collection of award-winning supernatural stories from around the world offers something for every taste in the uncanny. Yes, there are ghosts. But you'll also find pieces involving revenants or reanimated corpses of different sorts, including-but not limited to-zombies, as well as stories that make literary use of fairies, vampires, demons, The Devil Himself, snakes (talking, and otherwise), time slips (aka unintentional time travel), mystery animals, ancient curses, contemporary curses, a plague even scarier than the coronavirus, SanterÃa, and a number of haunted objects, including fine dinnerware, some smoky panes of old window glass, and a stuffed rabbit with a bad attitude. We've got several stories that fit the category of magic realism, a couple that are just plain hard to categorize, and one that has to do with dragons. Each of these 30 stories, in addition to providing the reader with a thrill, a chill, a laugh, or a new perspective on life and death, is also a small literary gem that you'll want to revisit again and again.
Author: Jason Karl
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN: 9781845375379
Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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In this new millennium dominated by logic and science, why is it that people's interest in ghosts and hauntings has never been greater?In 21st Century Ghosts, paranormal author and TV presenter Jason Karl proves that ghost stories are alive and well in the modern world. He provides a collection of contemporary encounters, submitted by members of the public from Britain, France, Germany, the US and Australia. The book concentrates on eye-witness accounts and never-before published ghostly events that have taken place since the turn of the millennium.Organized by country and region and including vital information on ghost hunting groups active around the world, Jason Karl has used his global network of ghost hunting contacts to create a world-first collection, for every avid ghost fan to add to their library.
Author: Peter Haining
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1849015759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood. This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguished writers have tried their hand at this popular genre - some basing their fictional tales on real supernatural experiences of their own.
Author: Eileen Jones (Editor of Limerick nation)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993124587
Category : Ghost stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Bottletree Books LLC
ISBN: 1933747331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Ghost stories became very popular in the first half of the 19th century and this collection by Andrew Barger contains the very scariest of them all. Some stories thought too horrific were published anonymously like "A Night in a Haunted House" and "The Deaf and Dumb Girl." The later story is collected for the first time in any anthology since its original publication in 1839. The other ghost stories in this fine collection are by famous authors. "The Mask of the Red Death," by Edgar Allan Poe; "A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family," by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu; "The Spectral Ship," by Wilhelm Hauff; "The Old Maid in the Winding Sheet," by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "The Adventure of the German Student," and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving; as well as "The Tapestried Chamber," by Sir Walter Scott. As he has done with a number of other books, Andrew Barger has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, annotations, author photos and a foreword titled "All Ghosts Are Gray." Buy the book today and be ready to be scared reading the best ghost stories of the first half of the 19th century.
Author: Richard Sugg
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540485540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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This book presents one hundred real-life stories from the nineteenth century press. Along with accounts of ghosts, poltergeists, and haunted houses, we meet extraordinary reports of the dying appearing hundreds or thousands of miles from the sight of their death, and living people who quite literally appear in two places at once. Analysing and interpreting these stories in the light of modern paranormal events and scientific findings, Century aims to show that ghosts and poltergeists certainly do exist. It offers a range of persuasive theories about what they really are and what they mean, and screws the microscope down on the details of ghost sightings and poltergeist incidents. Why are some ghosts grey or vague, and others able to pass as living people? Can ghosts speak? How do ghosts or poltergeists use human energy, and particularly the energy of the young or the traumatised? How do such phenomena relate to light, to electromagnetism, and even the body's circadian rhythms? This is a book about ghosts and poltergeists by someone who never expected to take them seriously. It is a book inspired by the strange experience of continually hearing such stories from people who kept them hidden until they were prompted to speak. It aims to help those who have suffered from the trauma of poltergeists, and to bring back into the open experiences which, in the developed world, have become a new kind of taboo. It is a book for anyone interested in the extraordinary effects of human emotion; the fringes of biology and physics; and the possible survival of human consciousness after death.
Author: Sean Ferrier-Watson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476629080
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Ghost stories have played a prominent role in childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in American literature is little known and seldom discussed by scholars. This book explores the fascinating origins and development of these tales, focusing on the social and historical factors that shaped them and gave birth to the genre. Ghost stories have existed for centuries but have been published specifically for children for only about 200 years. Early on, supernatural ghost stories were rare--authors and publishers, fearing they might adversely affect young minds, presented stories in which the ghost was always revealed as a fraud. These tales dominated children's publishing in the 19th century but the 20th century saw a change in perspective and the supernatural ghost story flourished.
Author: Sladja Blazan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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A collection that combines academic reflections on ghost stories from the 17th century to the ghosts in the machine. This work associates primary texts with Anglo-American narratives, even when these belong to the Chinese or African tradition as in the case of the American appropriation of Zhang Yimou's adaptation of "Raise the Red Lantern."
Author: Kitty Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995457997
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Perseus
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
ISBN: 9780786708086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Collects the ghost stories of twenty-seven authors, including Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Joan Aiken, Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alison Lurie.
