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โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Big Book of Ghost Stories
โ Scribed by Otto Penzler
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299072119
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โฆ Synopsis
THE BIG BOOK OF GHOST STORIES is a spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted--and haunting--tales.
The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in book form. Whether...
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