The Virago Book of Ghost Stories

Informationen zum Autor Richard Dalby is a literary biographer and researcher. He has edited books including The Sorceress in Stained Glass! The Best Ghost Stories of H Russell Wakefield; Dracula's Blood; Ghosts and Scholars and well as the previous three volumes of Virago ghost stories. Klappentext Featuring stories by A.S. Byatt - Angela Carter - Lisa St Aubin de Teran - Joan Aiken - Stella Gibbons - Edith Wharton - E.M. Delafield - Elizabeth Bowen - Ruth Rendell - and many more. This collection gathers deliciously chilling tales from the three highly acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories. Lost loves! past enmities and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses! settle scores and haunt the imagination. All of the writers demonstrate a subtle power to simultaneously delight and chill as they explore the ghostly margins of the supernatural. Zusammenfassung Absorbing, entertaining, deliciously unnerving, this anthology by some of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century is an irrestistible read for those with a taste for being spooked. 'A shivery treat' THE TIMES

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Dalby
• Mitarbeit: Richard Dalby (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Virago Press Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.10.2008
• EAN: 9781844085385
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-538-5
• Seiten: 512
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Serien: Virago Paperbacks; Virago Press; Virago Book Of...; Virago Book Of...
• Thema: Belletristik > Gemischte Anthologien