Another brilliant collection of tales from beyond the veil
Tales of ghosts and horror can be found in every age, country and
culture on earth; they have been passed down orally for millennia
and in written form have existed for almost as long as literature
itself. Although there have been notable novels of spine chilling
hauntings there can be little doubt that the ghost story is a form
ideally suited to short stories or novellas. The story that
frightens can be explicitly so, with screaming phantoms, a morality
tale or humorous, it can be subtly menacing with creeping horror,
and can be set almost anywhere. Such stories have never waned in
their popularity with the reading public and it is for this reason
that so many authors have applied their talents to creating them.
Essentially we love to be thrilled and chilled simultaneously. Some
of the finest exponents of the ghost story have been specialists
who became masters of the genre, while others wrote scary stories
to the same high standard as all their work. In the middle of the
19th century the appetite for tales of terror burgeoned and a
golden age was born that lasted until the outbreak of Great War. It
is probably fair to say that the finest works of the genre were
created during this period and it is principally from those that
the twenty-nine stories in this substantial anthology have been
drawn. This bumper collection of some of the best stories of the
ghostly and horrific has been gathered together by Eunice
Hetherington.
In 'The Second Leonaur Book of Great Ghost and Horror Stories are
'The Yellow Cat' by Wilbur Steele, 'A Witches Den' by Mme Helena
Blavatsky, 'The Box With Iron Clamps' by Florence Marryat, 'The
Clavecin, Bruges' by George Wharton Edwards, 'The Lost Room' by
Fitz-James O'Brien, 'The Sin Eater' by Fiona MacLeod and many more
fine tales of the chilling and weird.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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