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Author: S. Hay Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230316832 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 260
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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.
Author: Michael Cox Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019955630X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 504
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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.
Author: Marie O'Regan Publisher: Robinson ISBN: 1780330251 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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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 . . .
Author: M. J. Wayland Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530133741 Category : Languages : en Pages : 160
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Best-selling author, ghost historian and researcher MJ Wayland has carefully selected some of the most intriguing and scary ghost stories that Britain has to offer. From Black-eyed children ghost sightings, the ghosts of Kate Middleton's family home to a guide to Britain's most haunted locations, this compendium of frights offers ideal bite size reading at anytime, except maybe when you go to bed.... Cases included: Kate Middleton's Ghost The Ghost and the Murderer The Mystery of the Black-eyed Children Haughton Castle Spectre Vampires of the Borders Phantom Cannons of Hull Lancashire's Most Haunted Houses The Ghost Ship Clapham Woods: Haunted or Cursed? Oxford's Haunted Colleges Screaming Skulls Ghosts of Balgonie Castle, The Jorrock's Skull Isle of the Dead The Phantom Hand Scotland's Most Haunted Road A Haunting Village The Ghosts of Street House A to Z of Britain's Scariest Ghosts AND LOTS MORE GHOST STORIES!
Author: Michael Newton Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141943815 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 562
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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
Author: Sarah Perry Publisher: September Publishing ISBN: 1910463744 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 149
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Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. 'An impressive line-up of established and emerging names.' The Sunday Times 'These eerie, unsettling stories are guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.' Daily Express Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. 'Subtly evocative of human relations loss, grief, or the fear of loneliness.' TLS 'A satisfying and spooky read.' Sun Also includes a gazetteer of English Heritage properties which are said to be haunted.
Author: Gillian Bennett
Author: Gillian Bennett
Author: S. Hay
Author: Michael Cox
Author: Michael Cox
Author: Marie O'Regan
Author: M. J. Wayland
Author: Jeremy Dyson
Author: Michael Newton
Author: Susan Hill
Author: Sarah Perry