The Giant Book of Ghost Stories

by Richard Dalby and Kashana Cauley

Book Overview

Clean unmarked copy with mild shelf wear from normal handling. Not a remainder. Printed in EU/London 2006. Satisfaction guaranteed! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845294084
• ISBN13: 9781845294083
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Booksales
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Ghost writers speak

This 2006 reprint of editor Richard Dalby's THE GIANT BOOK OF GHOST STORIES is at least several hundred pages shy of actual enormity. The sampled authors include only a handful of names more familiar to the general reader (Dickens, Stowe, James and Stoker); all here were active in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In those times, short stories were often read aloud beside the family hearth. Many writers (like Charles Dickens) gave public readings to appreciative audiences of their latest creations. And perhaps that's the best way to enjoy these 30 venerable works-- as a listener. Some written words demand a hearing; ghost stories shared in an atmosphere of mystery and wonder are filled with exactly such words. Try dimming the lights some cool autumn evening, keep a candle at hand and read from this collection to your kith and kin. You will all be experiencing a unique and sadly, almost forgotten tradition: the bonding that occurs between an author, his surrogate voice, and the magically transported auditor. The 30 short horror stories in NURSERY CRIMES span a significantly wider era of publication. CONTENTS LIST for "The Giant Book of Ghost Stories": ANON Ghosts (a poem) Joseph Sheriden LE FANU - (1814 - 73) Schalken the Painter Dinah Maria MULOCK - (1826 - 87) M. Anastasius Fitz-James O'BRIEN - (1828 - 62) The Lost Room Charles DICKENS - (1812 - 70) No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman TINSLEY'S ANNUAL - (Dec. 1868) Haunted Henry JAMES - (1843 - 1916) The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Mary E. BRADDON - (1835 - 1915) John Granger Harriet Beecher STOWE - (1811 - 96) The Ghost in the Mill The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House Rhoda BROUGHTON (1840 - 1920) Poor Pretty Bobby Amelia B. EDWARDS (1831 - 92) The New Pass Emile ERCKMANN (1822-99) and Alexandre CHATRIAN (1826-90) The White and the Black ("Le Blanc et le noir") John Berwick HARWOOD - (1826 - 86?) The Underground Ghost Frank COWPER - (1849 - 1930) Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk Theo GIFT [pseudonym of Dora HAVERS] - (1847 - 1923) Dog or Demon J. E. P. MUDDOCK - (1843 - 1934) A Ghost from the Sea Richard MARSH [pseudonym of Richard Bernard Heldman] - (1857 - 1915) A Set of Chessmen Bram STOKER - (1847 - 1912) The Judge's House Grant ALLEN - (!848 - 99) Pallinghurst Barrow E. [Edith] NESBIT - (1858 - 1924) The Mystery of the Semi-Detached Ralph Adams CRAM - (1863 - 1942) Sister Maddelena LETTICE GALBRAITH'S NEW GHOST STORIES (1897) The Trainer's Ghost W. C. MORROW - (1853 - 1923) An Original Revenge Alice PERRIN - (1867 - 1934) Caulfield's Crime Robert W. CHAMBERS - (1865 - 33) The Bridal Pair Robert BENSON - (1871 - 1914) The Watcher Thomas Nelson PAGE - (1953 - 1922) The Spectre in the Cart Sabine BARING-GOULD - (1834 - 1924) H. P. Lafcadio HEARN - (1850 - 1904) Yuki-Onna