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Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780146001123
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A Gathering of Ghost Stories written by Robertson Davies and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Drazen
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462029434
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition written by Patrick Drazen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the worlds oldest novel, the urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." For hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world and the spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, author of "Anime Explosion", looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at common themes and the reasons for their popularity. This book uses one Japanese ghost story tradition: the "hyaku monogatari" (hundred stories). In the old tradition, people tell each other one hundred ghost stories in one sitting. These hundred tales run from folklore to cartoons, but all are designed to send chills up the spine ...
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184754450
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Penguin Book Of Indian Ghost Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.
Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860491542
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Virago Book of Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Author : Patrick Byrne
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856357279
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Irish Ghost Stories written by Patrick Byrne and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Ghost Stories contains stories that tell of spooky goings-on in almost every part of the country. They include the tales of the Wizard Earl of Kildare, the Scanlan Lights of Limerick, Buttoncap of Antrim, Maynooth College's haunted room, Loftus Hall in Wexford, and an account of how the poet Francis Ledwidge appeared to an old friend in County Meath. The country of Ireland is full of old castles with secret rooms, and while some of the stories are obvious figments of lively imaginations, there are other tales that cannot be easily explained away.
Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473663474
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of Christmas Past written by Neil Gaiman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.
Author : Various
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780688145873
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Great Ghost Stories written by Various and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1998-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can assure you," said the young man, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." So says the foolishly brave narrator of H. G. Wells's "The Red Room," one of the thirteen great ghost stories gathered together in this deluxe illustrated volume. Selected and illustrated by Barry Moser, a master of the macabre, these spooky tales will send a shiver down the spine of even the bravest reader. This new edition includes classic masterpieces of horror by H. P. Lovecraft, Brain Stoker, Richard Middleton, and Arthur Conan Doyle. There are also several chilling modern tales of the supernatural by such authors as Madeleine L'Engle and Joyce Carol Oates to petrify even the most seasoned explorer of the dark realms. From the slowly gathering dread of being caught in the grips of a haunted house to the sure, sharp horror of realization that overcomes one entering the spirit world, nothing compares to the thrill of these tales from the great beyond. With Barry Moser's fourteen eerie watercolors, this collection is sure to satisfy readers with an insatiable taste for terror, as well as those who simply love the chill down the spine that comes from reading a great ghost story.
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ISBN 13 : 9781435162310
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Great Ghost Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghosts! They come in all shape and sizes, all genders and species, and they have manifold reasons for manifesting--or, as is sometimes the case, not manifesting. For more than two centuries, ghosts have haunted the imaginations of writers around the world, who have chronicled their exploits with uncommon vividness for entities whose relative lack of material substance leads many among us to question their very existence. Great Ghost Stories pays tribute to the long literary legacy of the ghost story by gathering together in one volume 101 of the best short ghost stories of all time. Here you will find ghosts of virtually every stripe and semblance: ghosts who seek revenge against the living, ghosts who dutifully keep appointments made while their hosts were still alive, ghosts who appear to convince skeptics of their existence, and even ghosts who don't know that they're ghosts. Some of the ghosts depicted here are helpful, while others are horrifyingly malevolent. Some have disconcerting physicality--for example the phantom limb whose owner claims committed the murder he's accused of. Others are so insubstantial for instance, the lingering influence of a suicide that imbues a boarding house room that--that their power over the living seems completely out of proportion."--Book jacket.
Author : Roberta Simpson Brown
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813125952
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Spookiest Stories Ever written by Roberta Simpson Brown and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If tree branches scratching at your window on a stormy April night or the hot, sticky oppression of a stifling summer's day puts fear into your heart. Or rustling November leaves, and the chill that sneaks into your bones during the darkened days of winter makes you quiver with anxiety, then reading spooky thrillers shouldn't wait until October. From masterful storytelling duo Roberta and Lonnie Brown comes Spookiest Stories Ever: Four Seasons of Kentucky Ghosts, a creepy collection of tales from their home state. Featuring familiar Kentucky landmarks such as the Palace Theater and the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville and Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, these accounts from across the commonwealth are sure to put a tingle in the reader's spine. These notable stories, including tales of the "chime child" who can see and talk to ghosts, graveside appearances, and the Spurlington Witch of Taylor County, occur in all four seasons and come from every corner of Kentucky. An essential part of the American storytelling tradition, these ghost stories will delight readers who love getting goose bumps all year long.
Author : Karen Maitland
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472235894
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book A Gathering of Ghosts written by Karen Maitland and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagans tackle the Knights of St John with terrible consequences in the new medieval thriller by Queen of the Dark Ages, Karen Maitland. Set on the wilds of Dartmoor, this is a ghostly tale for fans of The Essex Serpent, C. J. Sansom's Shardlake series and The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse. 'A dark read... fear and hysteria are portrayed with claustrophobic skill' The Times on THE PLAGUE CHARMER 1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Knights of St John. People journey from afar in search of healing at the holy well that lies beneath its chapel. But the locals believe Dartmoor was theirs long before Christianity came to the land. And not all who visit seek miracles. When three strangers reach the moor, fear begins to stir as the well's waters run with blood. What witchcraft have the young woman, the Knight of St John and the blind child brought with them? The Sisters will need to fight for everything they hold dear as the ghosts of the Old World gather in their midst.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215497
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the unexpected.
Author : M. R. James
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143039396
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories written by M. R. James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only annotated edition of M. R. James’s writings currently available Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre. Included in this collection are such landmark tales as “Count Magnus,” set in the wilds of Sweden; “Number 13,” a distinctive tale about a haunted hotel room; “Casting the Runes,” a richly complex tale of sorcery that served as the basis for the classic horror film Curse of the Demon; and “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,” one of the most frightening tales in literature. The appendix includes several rare texts, including “A Night in King’s College Chapel,” James’s first known ghost story. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800583
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Shadows and Cypress written by Alan Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories. Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories is a Dixie séance that summons ghost tales from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Collecting more than a dozen stories from each state, this book channels the South's entire panorama of creepy locales into one volume. The limestone caves of Kentucky, the swamps of Louisiana and Florida, the pine hills and hollows of Appalachia, and the plains of Texas—these are perfect haunts for a host of narratives about visitors from the spirit world. The many cultures that converged in the American South enriched the region's ghost stories. Shadows and Cypress taps African American, French, Hispanic, and Scotch-Irish storytelling traditions to capture the distinctive signatures that each has left on ghostlore. Throughout the region, the southern ghost story is hardly a curio from the crypt. It is still alive and well. Folklorist Alan Brown draws stories from crannies as contemporary as the college dormitory or cars parked on a lover's lane. To give the reader the unique experience of hearing a classic ghost story told, Brown presents these tales exactly as they were recorded in his field research or as archived in the trove of the WPA oral collections. A wide variety of specters found only in this region arise in Shadows and Cypress. The “fillet” and “loogaroo” from Louisiana, “plat-eye” from South Carolina, and “haints” from across Dixie are among the creatures bumping in the night. Beginning with the Revolutionary War and continuing to the present day, this generous gathering of tales will chill and delight readers and long haunt shelves as a comprehensive sourcebook of the region's supernatural allure.
Author : Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473377781
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street written by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Sheridan Le Fanu was originally published in 1851. Born in Dublin in 1814, he came from a literary family of Huguenot origins; both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights,
Author : J. A. Cuddon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140861181
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Ghost Stories written by J. A. Cuddon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are some of the best ghost stories ever written, to be experienced as they were meant to be--read aloud. From Angeline or the Haunted House by Emile Zola to The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce, these are classic writers working in an ever-popular genre of apparitions, mystery, and murder.
Author : Patrick Drazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781462029426
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (294 download)
Download or read book A Gathering of Spirits written by Patrick Drazen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the world's oldest novel, The urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." for hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world And The spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, author of "Anime Explosion", looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at common themes And The reasons for their popularity. This book uses one Japanese ghost story tradition: The "hyaku monogatari" (hundred stories). In the old tradition, people tell each other one hundred ghost stories in one sitting. These hundred tales run from folklore to cartoons, but all are designed to send chills up the spine ...
Author : Nicole E. Rodriguez Mata
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1648344496
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Ghosts in South America written by Nicole E. Rodriguez Mata and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venezuela may be home to a whistling ghost! El Sibón wanders the country, gathering bones for his collection. If you hear his whistle, run away! This is one of three creepy ghost stories introduced in this book about the haunted tales of South America. Additional features show off the origin of each story, introduce a possible explanation, and highlight another similar story from another part of the world.
