THE BIG BOOK OF GHOST STORIES is a spirited Black Lizard anthology
with over a thousand pages of haunted--and haunting--tales.
The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural
literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every
writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor
Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to
collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These
spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day
horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to
pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L.
Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling,
Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by
the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already
classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a
century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in
book form. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful
apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to
thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep
you turning the pages with fearful delight.
Including such classics as "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Open Window"
and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted
mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping,
tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore
AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from
beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts,
ghouls, and specters galore
General
Imprint: |
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
First published: |
September 2012 |
Authors: |
Otto Penzler
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Dimensions: |
231 x 177 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
848 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-307-47449-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Horror & ghost stories
Promotions
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LSN: |
0-307-47449-6 |
Barcode: |
9780307474490 |
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