Download or read book An Omnibus of Twentieth Century Ghost Stories written by Robert Phillips and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, John Updike, Tennessee Williams, Edith Wharton, Truman Capote, and others

Download or read book The Omnibus of 20th century Ghost Stories written by Robert Phillips and published by Constable. This book was released on 1990 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted houses and demon lovers, anxious states of mind and revenge are some of the themes of the modern ghost story. This book is an anthology of ghost stories by authors such as Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, Muriel Spark, John Updike, Jean Rhys and E.M. Forster.

Download or read book Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories written by R. Phillips and published by Constable. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted houses and demon lovers, anxious states of mind and revenge are some of the themes of the modern ghost story. This book is an anthology of ghost stories by authors such as Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, Muriel Spark, John Updike, Jean Rhys and E.M. Forster.

Download or read book 20th Century Ghosts written by Joe Hill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . . The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . . The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).

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.

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:

Download or read book Nightshade written by Perseus and published by Carroll & Graf. This book was released on 2000-08-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the ghost stories of twenty-seven authors, including Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Joan Aiken, Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alison Lurie.

Download or read book Nightshade written by Robert S. Phillips and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the ghost stories of twenty-seven authors, including Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Joan Aiken, Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alison Lurie

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:

Download or read book 20th Century Ghost Stories written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Twentieth century Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Antique Dust written by Robert Westall and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Creepy . . . develops a sense of palpable evil . . . well worth the time of readers who prefer slyly civilized British ghost stories' - Kirkus Reviews 'Fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short fiction' - Publishers Weekly 'Marvelous M. R. Jamesian-style ghost stories' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post 'Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men's clocks, pipes and swords. Passing through my hands, they give off joy, loneliness, fear . . . I have known more evil in a set of false teeth than in any so-called haunted house in England.' So speaks Geoff Ashden, a regular guy trying to make an honest living as an antique dealer, but who has an uncanny knack for finding cursed objects and haunted places: a sinister Georgian clock carved with obscene and Satanic designs, a hideous doll with deadly powers, a pair of old spectacles that let their wearer see a little too clearly, an ugly house with a terrifying secret, a church full of graffiti scrawled in decomposing human flesh. In this collection, award-winning children's author Robert Westall delivers a set of chilling tales for adults and proves himself, as Orrin Grey writes in the new introduction to this edition, 'an obvious successor to that godfather of the English ghost story, M.R. James.'

Download or read book Ghost Stories by British and American Women written by Lynette Carpenter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1998 and covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, personal histories, and bodies of work vary widely, challenge the narrow way in which supernatural literature has traditionally been regarded: they indicate a much richer and more complex set of literary responses to the supernatural than has been hitherto acknowledged. The writers included range from Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic novelists to Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Gilman, and Edith Wharton to such modern writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and A.S. Byatt. The volume will be of interest to literary and cultural historians and of particular importance to women's studies scholars.

Download or read book Gothic Realities written by L. Andrew Cooper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence--this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics' fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and other works helped construct homosexuality as a pathological, dangerous phenomenon. It then turns to television and film, particularly Buffy the Vampire Slayer and David DeCoteau's direct-to-video movies, to trace Gothicized sexuality's lasting impact. Moving to heretical beliefs, Gothic Realities surveys ghost stories from Dickens's A Christmas Carol to Poltergeist, articulating the relationships between fiction and the "real" supernatural. Finally, it considers connections between Gothic horror and real-world violence, especially the tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech.

Download or read book The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart. As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly tales with remarkable subtlety and psychological depth. Her ghosts are not mere apparitions but poignant manifestations of guilt, regret, and unrequited desires. Through her elegant prose and sharp wit, Wharton delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring themes of forbidden passions, societal constraints, and the persistent power of the past. Each setting serves as the backdrop for chilling encounters with the spectral realm. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton is a testament to Wharton's versatility as a writer. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she imbues her tales with atmospheric tension, challenging the reader to question what lies beyond our mortal existence.

Download or read book The Virago Book of Ghost Stories cont Miss de Mannering of Asham written by Richard Dalby and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantasy written by John Clute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.