Haunted tales : classic stories of ghosts and the supernatural
Title:
Haunted tales : classic stories of ghosts and the supernatural
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edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger.
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
Physical Description:
xi, 305 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781639361977
Abstract:
In Haunted Tales, the reader will enjoy discovering masterpieces like Algernon Blackwood's terrifying "The Kit-Bag," Oscar Wilde's delightful "The Canterville Ghost," and F. Marion Crawford's horrific "The Screaming Skull," as well as lesser-known gems by some of literature's greatest voices, including Virginia Woolf's "A Haunted House," H. G. Wells's "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost," and Rudyard Kipling's "They." Haunted Tales also resurrects some wonders that have been woefully neglected, including Dinah Mulock's "M. Anastasius" (which Charles Dickens called "the best ghost story ever written"); E. F. Benson's "The Bus-Conductor" (the source of one of the most iconic lines in horror); and E. and H. Heron's "The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith" (the debut adventure of Flaxman Lowe, fiction's first psychic detective). Whether the stories are familiar or overlooked, all are sure to surprise and astonish the reader long past the closing of this book's cover. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction / by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger -- The ghost and the bone-setter / by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1838) -- M. Anastasius / by Dinah Mulock (1857) -- The lost room / by Fitz-James O'Brien (1858) -- The cold embrace / by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1860) -- The phantom coach / by Amelia B. Edwards (1864) -- An uncommon sort of spectre / by Edward Page Mitchell (1879) -- Man-size in marble / by Edith Nesbit (1887) -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde (1887) -- The haunted organist of Hurly Burly / by Rosa Mulholland (1891) -- Death / by Mary Wilkins Freeman (1892) -- An original revenge / by W.C. Morrow (1897) -- The story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith / by E. and H. Heron (1898) -- The story of the inexperienced ghost / by H.G. Wells (1902) -- Jikininki / by Lafcadio Hearn (1904)-- They / by Rudyard Kipling (1904) -- The bus-conductor / by E.F. Benson (1906) -- The kit-bag / by Algernon Blackwood (1908) -- The screaming skull / by F. Marion Crawford (1908) -- A haunted house / by Virginia Woolf (1921) -- The laughing thing / by. G.G. Pendarves (1929).