An edition of Ghost Stories (1956)
Ghost Stories
By Joan Aiken,Ruth Ainsworth,Brian Alderson,Robert Arthur,E. F. Benson,Ambrose Bierce,Lucy M. Boston,Arthur Conan Doyle,Helen Cresswell,Roald Dahl,Paul Dorrell,John Gordon,W. W. Jacobs,Montague Rhodes James,Michael Joseph,Gene Kemp,Walter De la Mare,Edith Nesbit,Oliver Onions,Philippa Pearce,Edgar Allan Poe,Arthur Quiller-Couch,Saki,H. Russell Wakefield,H. G. Wells
Publish Date
1987
Publisher
Octopus Books
Language
eng
Pages
302
Description:
An exciting collection of tales from the twilight world of haunted houses and hair-raising spectres is contained in this spine-chilling anthology. Includes: THE RIDDLE | Walter de la Mare THE MONKEY'S PAW | W. W. Jacobs A TOUGH TUSSLE | Ambrose Bierce THROUGH THE DOOR (from The Phantom Roundabout and Other Ghostly Stories) | Ruth Ainsworth A PAIR OF HANDS | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE | E. Nesbit KROGER'S CHOICE | John Gordon MANY COLOURED GLASS (from Young Winter's Tales) | Lucy M. Boston THE CLOCK TOWER GHOST (from The Clock Tower Ghost) | Gene Kemp THE BROWN HAND | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE GORGE OF THE CHURELS | H. Russell Wakefield [THE TELL-TALE HEART](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) | Edgar Allan Poe A KIND OF SWAN SONG | Helen Cresswell THE HAUNTED TRAILER | Robert Arthur THE STRANGER | Ambrose Bierce THE HAUNTED DOLL'S HOUSE | M. R. James THE [Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady) (from Kiss Kiss) | Roald Dahl BAD COMPANY | Walter de la Mare THE YELLOW CAT | Michael Joseph THE WOOING OF CHERRY BASNETT | Brian Alderson EXPIATION | E. F. Benson THE SHADOW-CAGE (from The Shadow-Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural) | Philippa Pearce THE MORTAL | Oliver Onions TEA AND EMPATHY | Paul Dorrell LAURA | Saki THE RED ROOM | H. G. Wells THE WELL | W. W. Jacobs THE SWAN CHILD (from A Whisper in the Night) | Joan Aiken
subjects: ghost stories, ghost story, ghosts, supernatural, ghost, haunted, haunting, scary, English Ghost stories, Ghost short stories in English (1800-1980), Anthologies, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Crime in fiction, Delitos, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, Murder in fiction, short stories, short story, Short horror stories, cyanide
People: Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple
Places: Eton College, Cambridge