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Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781854875365
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (753 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Constable. This book was released on 1998 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786705832
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty ghost stories written by some of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, including Agatha Christie, Henry James, John Mortimer, John Steinbeck, and H.G. Wells.
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849015759
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood. This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguished writers have tried their hand at this popular genre - some basing their fictional tales on real supernatural experiences of their own.
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories written by Peter Haining and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780333641
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house. Stories include: Something unspeakable lurks in a Connecticut apartment closet, in Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly horrifying in wait, in 'The Whistling Room' by William Hope Hodgson; The lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant, in Norah Lofts' 'Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously occupied by a doomed castle, in 'In Letters of Fire' by Gaston Le Roux; The hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth-century country mansion, 'The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists, avenging spirits and phantom lovers - curl up and read on, but never imagine you are safe from a visit...
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786716036
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than forty tales encompass such plots as vengeful spirits set on causing harm to innocent people, kindly specters reaching out to the world of the living, and erotic ghosts participating in sinister seductions, in an anthology that features pieces by such contributors as Stephen King, Bram Stoker, and Ruth Rendell.
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 178033365X
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings written by Peter Haining and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near Tintagel in Cornwall that led actress Kate Winslet to pull out of buying the property. It covers the full spectrum of credible hauntings, from poltergeists (the noisy, dangerous and frightening spirits that are usually associated with pubescent girls, like the Bell Witch), to phantoms (like the Afrits of Saudi Arabia) and seduction spirits (such as the Lorelei, which have lured German men to death). Also included are the notes of the most famous ghost hunters of the twentieth century such as Hans Holzer, Susy Smith (USA); Harry Price, Jenny Randles (UK); Joyce Zwarycz (Australia), Eric Rosenthal (South Africa), and Hwee Tan (Japan). Plus essays by such names as Robert Graves, Edgar Cayce, and M. R. James outlining their own - often extraordinary - conclusions as to just what ghosts might be; along with a full bibliography and list of useful resources. Praise for MBO Haunted House Stories: 'A first rate list of contributors ... Hair raising!' Time Out 'All we need say is buy it.' Starlog
Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0241955718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories written by Roald Dahl and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Author : Colleen O'Connor Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780939748549
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave written by Colleen O'Connor Olson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you enter the world's longest cave you cannot help but wonder about scary stories. Two centuries of tourists and explorers--some of whom got lost, saw or heard the unexplainable, or just wanted to tell a good tale--cannot leave a cave without stories. Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave is a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, historical and more recent first hand accounts of unusual experiences by National Park Service employees, cave explorers, and scientists.
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151074987X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror written by Stephen Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, Michael Marshall Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, and more! The darkness that endures beneath the earth . . . the disquiet that lingers in the woodland surrounding a forgotten path . . . those ancient traditions and practices that still cling to standing stone circles, earthworks, and abandoned buildings; elaborate rituals that invoke elder gods or nature deities; the restless spirits and legendary creatures that remain connected to a place or object, or exist in deep wells and lonely pools of water, waiting to ensnare the unwary traveler . . . These concepts have been the archetypes of horror fiction for decades, but in recent years they have been given a name: Folk Horror. This type of storytelling has existed for more than a century. Authors Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and M. R. James all published fiction that had it roots in the notion of the supernatural being linked to objects or places “left behind.” All four writers are represented in this volume with powerful, and hopefully unfamiliar, examples of their work, along with newer exponents of the craft such as Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, and many others. Illustrated with the atmospheric photography of Michael Marshall Smith, the stories in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror tap into an aspect of folkloric tradition that has long been dormant, but never quite forgotten, while the depiction of these forces as being in some way “natural” in no way detracts from the sense of nameless dread and escalating horror that they inspire . . .
Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : MetroBooks
ISBN 13 : 9781586637378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by MetroBooks. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ghost stories that were popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.
Author : Peter Normanton
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786720729
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics written by Peter Normanton and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the finest names in comic book horror, this volume features nearly 50 comics that caused a furor in the US and sparked legislation to crack down on explicit horror—from the 1940s to the 21st century. Includes names like Steve Niles, Pete Von Sholly, Michael Kaluta, Mike Ploog, Rudy Palais, Rand Holmes, Vincent Locke, Frank Brunner, and many more. Reproduced in black and white for this brand-new collection.
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786700233
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Zombies written by Stephen Jones and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers zombie stories by Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Manly Wade Wellman, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Edward Wagner, Brian Lumley, H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert Bloch
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780762445974
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 written by Stephen Jones and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new anthology represents the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of horror and exciting newcomers. The award-winning series offers a chilling overview of this year in horror.
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 : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472100263
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141943815
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories written by Michael Newton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
