Illustrated Ghost Stories
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Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781409596707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A thrilling collection of ghost stories, brought to life with atmospheric illustrations.
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0241955718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
Author: Ruth Ann Musick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010-09-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0813128277
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
Ghost Story
Author: Peter Straub
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0593198107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →#1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub's classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past... What was the worst thing you've ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories--some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...
The Random House Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Susan Hill
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seventeen ghost stories from England are cozy or comic rather than spooky.
Trucker Ghost Stories
Author: Annie Wilder
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0765330350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of firsthand accounts from truckers who have driven all over the United States and have encountered strange and unusual phenomenons which can only be described as paranormal.
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-29
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781943910564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume. "In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed, with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave, and awaiting the demon that animated it?" - John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" "Suddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Something--what, I knew not--seemed near, something nameless, but unutterably awful." - Ada Buisson, "The Ghost's Summons" "There was no longer any question what she was, or any thought of her being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions which had animated her while she lived." - Walter Scott, "The Tapestried Chamber"
Penguin Book Of Indian Ghost Stories
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2000-10-15
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 8184754450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 019955630X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.
Ghost Stories for Darwin
Author: Banu Subramaniam
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2014-10-15
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0252096592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, Banu Subramaniam explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology. Subramaniam reveals the histories of eugenics and genetics and their impact on the metaphorical understandings of difference and diversity that permeate common understandings of differences among people exist in contexts that seem distant from the so-called objective hard sciences. Journeying into interdisciplinary areas that range from the social history of plants to speculative fiction, Subramaniam uncovers key relationships between the life sciences, women's studies, evolutionary and invasive biology, and the history of ecology, and how ideas of diversity and difference emerged and persist in each field.
