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More Ghost Stories
by Aidan Chambers; Tim StevensISBN13:
9780753457368
ISBN10:
0753457369
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Trade Paper
Pub. Date:
9/9/2004
Publisher(s):
Kingfisher
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Summary
Including masterpieces such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Agatha Christie's "The Lamp," this eerie anthology of fifteen stories is not for the faint of heart.
Author Biography
Aidan Chambers worked for some years as a teacher before he and his wife, Nancy, founded the Thimble Press and published Signal, and a critical journal devoted to children's literature. In 1982 Nancy and Aidan won the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and Aidan's most recent title, Postcard From No Man's Land (Bodley Head), won the Carnegie Medal in 2000.
Table of Contents
| INTRODUCTION | 7 | (2) | |
| THE LONESOME PLACE | 9 | (10) | |
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| SUCH A SWEET LITTLE GIRL | 19 | (13) | |
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| A GHOST STORY | 32 | (8) | |
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| FOOTSTEPS INVISIBLE | 40 | (17) | |
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| THE GNOMON | 57 | (12) | |
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| THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS (abridged) | 69 | (20) | |
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| IF SHE BENDS, SHE BREAKS | 89 | (15) | |
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| ROOM 18 | 104 | (13) | |
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| BROWNIE | 117 | (17) | |
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| THE LAMP | 134 | (10) | |
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| THE HAUNTING OF CHAS McGILL | 144 | (28) | |
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| THE TELL -TALE HEART | 172 | (7) | |
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| THE DEATH OF PEGGY MORRISSEY | 179 | (12) | |
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| CHRISTMAS IN THE RECTORY | 191 | (13) | |
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| THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (abridged) | 204 | (20) | |
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| Acknowledgments | 224 |
