Ghost Stories
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Book Overview
A new anthology of classic ghost stories--the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format. The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatcher," while visions of the dead come between the living in Henry James's "The Friends of the Friends." P. G. Wodehouse gives us a farcical take on the haunted house in "Honeysuckle Cottage," and in L. P. Hartley's "W.S.," a writer is fatally stalked by his own aggrieved creation. Here are ghosts of every stripe and intent in stories from writers as varied as Elizabeth Bowen and Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty and Vladimir Nabokov, Ray Bradbury and Edith Wharton, among others. In the hands of these masters, the ghost story ranges far beyond mere horror to encompass comedy and tragedy, pathos and drama, and even a touch of poetry.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0307269248
ISBN13:9780307269249
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Everyman's Library
Length:416 Pages
Weight:0.99 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 4.9" x 7.2"
Customer Reviews
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Everyman's Pocket Classics: Ghost Stories
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Last year I bought the Everyman's Pocket Classics Collection entitled Christmas Stories, and I was so pleased to have found a collection of short stories that evoked a sense of the holidays and the winter without being super-cheesy or commercial. The authors they selected are all heavy-hitters and the writing was a lot of fun to read. When I bought Ghost Stories, I think my expectation was too high, which is why I was a little disappointed. The stories are still great, but they aren't as dark or creepy as I had hoped for. From what I've read so far (about 1/3 through the book) the stories are simply stories that have ghosts in them (in some form or other). And I was surprised that they hadn't included any Edgar Allan Poe. In any case, I've still really enjoyed reading them, introducing myself to authors I've never read before and there is an element of spookiness that they do have. I'd definitely recommend this book, though it was slightly different than what I was expecting.
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