The Oxford book of English ghost stories

The Oxford Book of English Love Stories

✍ Sutherland, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🌐 English ⚖ 972 KB

Overview: Adulterous love, marital love, virginal love, religious devotion, agape, lust, eros: there are an infinite variety of meanings that can be packed into the four letters that spell love, and writers of fiction have been trying for centuries to plumb its depths. We turn to literature in large

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

✍ Michael Cox 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 387 KB 👁 3 views

The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more genera

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

✍ Cox, Michael; Gilbert, A R 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 383 KB

Eight ghosts: the English Heritage book of new ghost stories

✍ Jeanette Winterson 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 September Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 197 KB 👁 3 views

**Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. ** Eight authors were given after hours freedom at their chosen English heritage site. Immersed in the history, atmosphere and rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings int

Eight ghosts: the English Heritage book of new ghost stories

✍ Jeanette Winterson 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 September Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 197 KB 👁 3 views

**Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. ** Eight authors were given after hours freedom at their chosen English heritage site. Immersed in the history, atmosphere and rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings int

The Big Book of Ghost Stories

✍ Otto Penzler 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Crime/Bla 🌐 en-US ⚖ 3 MB 👁 2 views

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

The Oxford book of English ghost stories

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