The Virago Book Of Victorian Ghost Stories

Download or read book The Virago Book of Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.

Download or read book The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories written by Virago and published by Charnwood Pub. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers ghost stories by Edith Wharton, Etten Glasgow, Norah Lofts, Fay Weldon, and Mary Webb

Download or read book Victorian Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1988 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one stories from the pens of such writers as Charlotte Bronte and Willa Cather.

Download or read book The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 21 ghost stories from authors such as Charlotte Bronte, Mrs Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, Willa Cather, Mrs Oliphant, Mary E. Braddon and Violet Hunt.

Download or read book Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories written by Roald Dahl and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Madam Crowl's Ghost written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes tales which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals.

Download or read book The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales written by Rudyard Kipling and published by New York : M.J. Ivers, [19--?]. This book was released on 1891 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: