Edith
701) Ghost stories
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A collection of classic ghost stories, featuring selections by Walter de la Mare, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Alison Lurie, and many others.
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"As railroads, industry, cities, and technology flourished in the mid-nineteenth century, so did stories exploring the horrors they unleashed. This anthology includes ghost stories and tales of haunted houses, as well as mad scientists, werewolves, ancient curses, mummies, psychological terrors, demonic dimensions, and even weird westerns." --provided by publisher.
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"Following the success of their acclaimed Weird Women, star anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers. This new volume once again gathers some of the most famous voices of literature -- George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton -- along with chilling tales by writers who were among the bestselling and most critically-praised...
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"From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows opens with "The Sand-man," E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1817 tale of dopplegangers and automatons--a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th...
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A compilation of thirty-eight unique tales of magic and fantasy by such authors as William Morris, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Mark Twain. "Green Is the Color", John M. Ford/"Wooden Tony", Lucy Clifford/"Lest Levitation Come Upon Us", Suzette Haden Elgin/"Prince Bull", Charles Dickens/"The Trumph of Vice", W.S. Gilbert/"Turandiana", Fyodor Sologub/"The Princess and the Frog", Robin McKinley/"Darkness Box", Ursula K. Le Guin/"Jack and the Beanstalk", Osbert...
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In Haunted Tales, the reader will enjoy discovering masterpieces like Algernon Blackwood's terrifying "The Kit-Bag," Oscar Wilde's delightful "The Canterville Ghost," and F. Marion Crawford's horrific "The Screaming Skull," as well as lesser-known gems by some of literature's greatest voices, including Virginia Woolf's "A Haunted House," H. G. Wells's "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost," and Rudyard Kipling's "They." Haunted Tales also resurrects...