Ghost Stories (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:	India
Series:	Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	September 2008
Editors:	Peter Washington
Dimensions:	188 x 122 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-307-26924-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-307-26924-8
Barcode:	9780307269249

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