The Big Book of Ghost Stories Contributor(s): Penzler, Otto (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307474496 ISBN-13: 9780307474490 Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Ghost - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012020265 |
Physical Information: 1.48" H x 6.97" W x 9.2" L (2.13 lbs) 848 pages |
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/30/2012 pg. 43 Booklist 08/01/2012 pg. 37 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted--and haunting--ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations. 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 |
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