Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620189
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A lively new collection of 100 British ghost stories from the seventeenth century to the present day.
The 100 Best British Ghost Stories
Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620189
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A lively new collection of 100 British ghost stories from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620189
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A lively new collection of 100 British ghost stories from the seventeenth century to the present day.
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women
Author: Marie O'Regan
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780330251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780330251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .
The Random House Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Susan Hill
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Seventeen ghost stories from England are cozy or comic rather than spooky.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Seventeen ghost stories from England are cozy or comic rather than spooky.
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019955630X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019955630X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.
New Grub Street
Author: George Gissing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A History of the Modern British Ghost Story
Author: S. Hay
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230316832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230316832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192804472
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192804472
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0241955718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0241955718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Traditions of Belief
Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description