Ghost Stories

Washington, Peter (editor)

ISBN 10: 0307269248 / ISBN 13: 9780307269249

Published by Everyman's Library / Knopf, New York, 2008

About this Item

8vo, 407 pp. Seller Inventory # 112612

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ghost Stories

Publisher: Everyman's Library / Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st.

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

Book Description:

A scarily good collection of ghost stories from well known authors ~ both classic and contemporary