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The Penguin book of ghost stories : from Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce / edited with an introduction by Michael Newton.
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9780141442365 (paperback)
Title
The Penguin book of ghost stories : from Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce / edited with an introduction by Michael Newton.
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London : Penguin, 2010.
copyright2010.
Description
xliv, 416 pages ; 20 cm.
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Includes biographical references.
Bibliography : p. [xxxvi]-xli.
Contents
The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The haunted and the haunters: or, The house and the brain / Edward Bulwer Lytton -- The cold embrace / Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- The North mail / Amelia B. Edwards -- No. 1 branch line: the signal-man / Charles Dickens -- Green Tea / Sheridan Le Fanu -- The ghost in the Cap'n Brown house / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The open door / Margaret Oliphant -- At the end of the passage / Rudyard Kipling -- Nightmare-touch / Lafcadio Hearn -- The monkey's paw / W. W. Jacobs -- The wind in the rose-bush / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- 'Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad' / M. R. James -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The readjustment / Mary Austin -- Afterward / Edith Wharton.
Summary
Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt this terrifying new selection of ghost stories. Bringing together the best works from the masters of the suernatural, these are stories that defined the genre.
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Ghost stories, English
English fiction -- 19th century
Ghost stories, American
American fiction -- 19th century
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Ghost stories
Short stories
Classical fiction
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Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965-
editor, author of introduction.
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Penguin classics
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American fiction -- 19th century
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Classical fiction
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English fiction -- 19th century
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Ghost stories
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Ghost stories, American
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Ghost stories, English
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Short stories
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Detective and mystery stories
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Fantasy fiction
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Fiction
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Horror tales
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American fiction
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English fiction
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Fiction
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Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965-
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