Author: Vic Crume
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590092197
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: V. Crume
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590092197
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Adam O. Davis
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1946448672
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of their presence the way spirits in haunted houses trod over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. The poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving this sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. Though they often specify dates, there’s an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment, and persists, despite being in the past, present, or future. If there really was a 1980 or 1848 or 1499, Davis implies it is somewhere. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut, one that will surprise, convince, and most of all, delight.

Author: Riley Cain
Publisher: Currach Books
ISBN: 9781782189244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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For the 'spooktacular' month of October, thirty-one tales crammed with ghostly fun dare you to book a seat on the Fright Flight; enter the The Witches' Broomstick Race, fight vampires with fearless Gran Helsing, and ride with The Phantom Highwayman.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: United Holdings Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589801769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Those who follow this book carefully are sure to win every Halloween contest they enter." --Booklist The literature of Halloween began in a time when poets, playwrights, and storytellers told tales inspired by fear of fate, the unknown, and the inexplicable--stories about dead souls and otherworldly creatures who drifted through the dark only on Halloween, when the spirit world seemed close enough to touch.This sourcebook of Halloween lore spans British, Irish, Scottish, French, Canadian, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, from Robert Burns, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce to Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft. Each of the poems, stories, and plays in this anthology provides a link to Halloween celebrations of the past. Treasures abound, such as a rare Halloween mention in a colonial American play and a French journalist's retelling of a night spent amongst the bones of a Breton charnel house. The "Hallowoddities" section includes witch-trial testimony, journal entries, and other spooky pieces related to Halloween.

Author: John Hollander
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1400043883
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas’s wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches’ brew of poems from the spirit world.

Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780688147334
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. "Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level."--Kirkus Reviews.

Author: Joanne Rocklin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780064442619
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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We will not scare you… much! Children will love this tickling collection of poems and short tales...told by a ghost!

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8074844986
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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This carefully crafted ebook: "A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (The Original Unabridged Posthumous Edition of 18 Short Stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death. The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921: "A Haunted House" "Monday or Tuesday" "An Unwritten Novel" "The String Quartet" "Kew Gardens" "The Mark on the Wall" The next six appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941 : "The New Dress" "The Shooting Party" "Lappin and Lappinova" "Solid Objects" "The Lady in the Looking-Glass" "The Duchess and the Jeweller" The final six were unpublished, although only "Moments of Being" and "The Searchlight" were finally revised by Virginia Woolf herself : "Moments of Being" "The Man who Loved his Kind" "The Searchlight" "The Legacy" "Together and Apart" "A Summing Up"