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The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

✍ Scribed by Peter Haining


Publisher
Constable Robinson
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
520 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1849015759

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✦ Synopsis


"Oh whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" / M.R. James -- The house at Treheale / A.C. Benson -- The Richpins / E.G. Swain -- The Everlasting Club / Arthur Gray -- Number Seventy-Nine / A.N.L. Munby -- Playing with fire / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The house surgeon / Rudyard Kipling -- The grove of Ashtraroth / John Buchan -- A man from Glasgow / Somerset Maugham -- The last laugh / D.H. Lawrence -- The visit to the museum / Vladimir Nabokov -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen -- The ghost of U65 / George Minto -- "Vengeance is mine" / Algernon Blackwood -- The punishment / Lord Dunsany -- The haunted chateau / Dennis Wheatley -- Pink May / Elizabeth Bowen -- A gremlin in the beer / Derek Barnes -- Money for jam / Sir Alec Guinness -- The lady's maid's bell / Edith Wharton -- The duenna / Marie Belloc Lowndes -- Clytie / Eudora Welty -- The pool / Daphne du Maurier -- A spot of Gothic / Jane Gardam -- The inexperienced ghost / H.G. Wells -- Full fathom five / Alexander Woollcott -- The night the ghost got in / James Thurber -- Sir Tristram goes west / Eric Keown -- Who or what was it? / Kingsley Amis -- Another fine mess / Ray Bradbury -- Only a dream -- / Rider Haggard -- The haunted house / Edith Nesbit -- The light in the garden / E.F. Benson -- The prescription / Marjorie Bowen -- Christmas honeymoon / Howard Spring -- South Sea bubble / Hammond Innes -- Ringing in the good news / Peter Ackroyd -- Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- The ghost / A.E. Van Vogt -- The party / William F. Nolan -- Underground / J.B. Priestley -- Haunted / Joyce Carol Oates -- Video nasty / Philip Pullman -- My beautiful house / Louis de Bernières.;Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood. This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguished writers have tried their hand at this popular genre - some basing their fictional tales on real supernatural experiences of their.


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