Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories

by Dalby, Richard; Dalby, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781586637361
• ISBN10: 1586637363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Metro Books

Summary

For as long as people have told stories, they have been fascinated by ghosts, specters, ghouls, and demons. The human mind is drawn irresistibly to the mysterious -- right down to the deepest recesses of fear. Here, in one value-packed volume are fifty macabre masterpieces from the greatest British and American practitioners of the art of the ghostly tale. Editor Richard Dalby has made an inspired selection that offers readers the very best work of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Victorian fireside hair-raisers, Edwardian magazine thrillers, elegant nightmares from the 1920s, and the more manic visions of modern times. Suspense, mystery, and horror specialists such as M. R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Amelia B. Edwards are prominently featured. So are such classic authors as Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Mark Twain. Modern writers are ably represented by Ramsey Campbell, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, and Basil Copper among others. So if you want to curl up with a good book, try The Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories. It just might curl your hair as well. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
The Unsettled Dust	p. 1
How He Left the Hotel	p. 40
Whessoe	p. 45
The Shuttered Room	p. 55
An Inhabitant of Carcosa	p. 68
Is There Anybody There?	p. 72
The Whisperers	p. 88
Curfew	p. 94
I'm Sure It Was No.31	p. 103
The Guide	p. 108
The Limping Ghost	p. 120
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost	p. 136
The House by the Tarn	p. 169
In Kropfsberg Keep	p. 182
The Ghost in all the Rooms	p. 191
The Bagman's Uncle	p. 200
The Bully of Brocas Court	p. 217
In the Confessional	p. 229
The Tune in Dan's Cafe	p. 244
Beyond the Bourne	p. 254
The Valley of Lost Children	p. 267
The Sand-Walker	p. 278
The Real Right Thing	p. 293
The Haunted Dolls' House	p. 306
The Wall-Painting	p. 317
"They"	p. 331
The Last Laugh	p. 352
Robin's Rath	p. 369
The Dream	p. 387
The Sundial	p. 399
The Fifteenth Man	p. 409
Brenner's Boy	p. 420
Uncle Abraham's Romance	p. 436
What Was It?	p. 440
The Next Room	p. 452
The Footstep of the Aventine	p. 461
William Wilson	p. 472
Courage	p. 491
The Last of Squire Ennismore	p. 498
The Garside Fell Disaster	p. 505
The Tears of Saint Agathe	p. 513
The Soul of Laploshka	p. 524
The Old Dining-Room	p. 529
The Between-Maid	p. 541
A Ghost Story	p. 546
The Folly	p. 552
Out of the Wrack I Rise	p. 569
In the Pines	p. 575
Where Angels Fear ...	p. 603
The House of the Nightmare	p. 611
The Canterville Ghost	p. 620
The Spectre Spiders	p. 646
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