The Virago Book of Ghost Stories

By: Dalby, Richard

Book Overview

Featuring stories by A.S. Byatt - Angela Carter - Lisa St Aubin de Teran - May Sinclair - Joan Aiken - Stella Gibbons - Edith Wharton - E.M. Delafield - Elizabeth Bowen - Ruth Rendell - and many more.

This collection gathers together deliciously chilling tales from the three highly acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories. Here lost loves, past enmities and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses, settle scores and haunt the imagination. All of the writers demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore the ghostly margins of the supernatural.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844085384
• ISBN13: 9781844085385
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Little Brown and Co. (UK)
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Haunted Women

This is a truly excellent collection of ghost stories by women. There is something for every taste: stories amusing, tender, unexpected, and/or truly bone-chilling. The stories, which range in length from a few pages to novella, are arranged in chronological order; and the focus is by no means only on women. Come a dark and stormy night you will be glad to have the company of this compendium of pleasant horrors.