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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.838
EAN num: 9780786713639
ISBN number: 0786713631
Label: Running Press
Manufacturer: Running Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: July 06, 2004
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Featuring eerily atmospheric modern tales of foreboding and unease by such contemporary authors as Garry Kilworth, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Tony Richards, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, as well as disquieting classic ghost stories by literary giants like Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Scott, F. Marion Crawford, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu, this anthology of highly original and often long-obscure works by twenty-five noteworthy masters of the macabre is guaranteed to raise more than a shiver. Gleaned from the renowned Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series, which was edited from 1972 to 1984 by prolific horror fiction writer and erudite anthologist R. Chetwynd-Hayes, these tales reflect the enduring fascination in our literary tradition with phantoms, specters, ghouls, and wraiths. There's a Fetch, too—in Tina Rath's intricately plotted tale of a violent husband, a shrinking wife, a scheming woman, and a Doppleganger. Behind Guy de Maupassant's simply titled 'An Apparition' lurks a tale that Chetwynd-Hayes places among the top ten ghost stories ever written. From Daniel Defoe's entertaining eighteenth-century period piece to the subtle slice of contemporary ghostly life from Stephen King, solace in these remarkable, chilling fictions comes only at the feet of very dark angels.
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I really cannot find any stories in this collection that I did not like. Each story is unique and enjoyable.
In this collection, you'll find tragic stories of spirits seeking to bring justice to their killers as well as malevolent ghosts who simply seek to attack or torment the living. Not all stories end well for the storytellers though.
You won't find gory or raunchy stories in here that you find in alot of current horror writing and that is just another reason why this is a fresh of breath air. So much horror yesterday seems to try and shock you with the obscene more than they try to scare you with the truly supernatural.
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