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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2012-09-18
- Pages
- 848
- ISBN
- 9780307474490
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307474496
ISBN-13
9780307474490
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112005183
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Book of Ghost Stories
Number of Pages
848 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Horror, Ghost, Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
30.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-020265
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Wonderful. . . . A list on your computer is one thing. A big, fat, juicy, paperback anthology like this is something else altogether." -- The Buffalo News (editor's choice) "This mountain-sized omnibus contains every wrinkle of the form you could ever want. . . . There's enough in this volume to please both dilettantes and devotees among ghost story readers." -- Publishers Weekly "Penzler has done an excellent job of collecting interesting, unnerving, and fascinating stories as well as providing nifty tidbits in the introductions. Reading most of these stories just before trying to sleep, though, is not recommended." -- Booklist, "Wonderful. . . . A list on your computer is one thing. A big, fat, juicy, paperback anthology like this is something else altogether." -- The Buffalo News (editor's choice) "This mountain-sized omnibus contains every wrinkle of the form you could ever want. . . . There's enough in this volume to please both dilettantes and devotees among ghost story readers." -- Publishers Weekly, "This mountain-sized omnibus contains every wrinkle of the form you could ever want. . . . There's enough in this volume to please both dilettantes and devotees among ghost story readers." -- Publishers Weekly, "Volumes of frightfulness. . . . No one should go through life (let alone death) without experiencing W.W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw,' Perceval Landon's 'Thurnley Abbey,' Ambrose Bierce's 'The Moonlit Road' and M.R. James's 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad.' But Penzler also includes many stories that should be equally well known. This year, for instance, I read for the first time Ellen Glasgow's 'The Shadowy Third'." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "If you enjoy, as I have since childhood, a great ghost story well told, this book is required reading." --Charles McNair, Paste Magazine "Wonderful. . . . A list on your computer is one thing. A big, fat, juicy, paperback anthology like this is something else altogether." -- The Buffalo News (editor's choice) "Jam packed with enough classic horror and otherworldly stories to keep you having nightmares through the month of October. . . . This collection of short stories coupled with eerie vintage illustrations is a must-have for the nightstand. The only thing that can make it better is a flashlight under the covers." -- The Long Island Press "This mountain-sized omnibus contains every wrinkle of the form you could ever want. . . . There's enough in this volume to please both dilettantes and devotees among ghost story readers." --Publishers Weekly "Penzler has done an excellent job of collecting interesting, unnerving, and fascinating stories as well as providing nifty tidbits in the introductions. Reading most of these stories just before trying to sleep, though, is not recommended." --Booklist, "Volumes of frightfulness. . . . No one should go through life (let alone death) without experiencing W.W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw,' Perceval Landon's 'Thurnley Abbey,' Ambrose Bierce's 'The Moonlit Road' and M.R. James's 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad.' But Penzler also includes many stories that should be equally well known. This year, for instance, I read for the first time Ellen Glasgow's 'The Shadowy Third'." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "If you enjoy, as I have since childhood, a great ghost story well told, this book is required reading." --Charles McNair, Paste Magazine "Wonderful. . . . A list on your computer is one thing. A big, fat, juicy, paperback anthology like this is something else altogether." -- The Buffalo News (editor's choice) "Jam packed with enough classic horror and otherworldly stories to keep you having nightmares through the month of October. . . . This collection of short stories coupled with eerie vintage illustrations is a must-have for the nightstand. The only thing that can make it better is a flashlight under the covers." -- The Long Island Press "This mountain-sized omnibus contains every wrinkle of the form you could ever want. . . . There's enough in this volume to please both dilettantes and devotees among ghost story readers." --Publishers Weekly "Penzler has done an excellent job of collecting interesting, unnerving, and fascinating stories as well as providing nifty tidbits in the introductions. Reading most of these stories just before trying to sleep, though, is not recommended." --Booklist
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Table Of Content
BUT I''M NOT DEAD YET Conrad Aiken: Mr. Arcularis William Fryer Harvey: August Heat I''LL LOVE YOU--FOREVER (OR MAYBE NOT) Ellen Glasgow: The Shadowy Third Ellen Glasgow: The Past David Morrell: But At My Back I Always Hear O. Henry: The Furnished Room Paul Ernst: Death''s Warm Fireside Andrew Klavan: The Advent Reunion R. Murray Gilchrist: The Return Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Ambrose Bierce: The Moonlit Road Lafcadio Hearn: The Story of Ming-Y Lafcadio Hearn: Yuki-Onna THIS OLD HOUSE Amyas Northcote: Brickett Bottom E. F. Benson: How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery G. G. Pendarves: Thing of Darkness Edward Lucas White: The House of the Nightmare Hector Bolitho: The House on Half Moon Street Dick Donovan: A Night of Horror Vincent O''sullivan: The Burned House KIDS WILL BE KIDS Rosemary Timperley: Harry Michael Reaves: Make-Believe A. M. Burrage: Playmates Ramsey Campbell: Just Behind You A. E. Coppard: Adam And Eve and Pinch Me Steve Friedman: The Lost Boy of the Ozarks THERE''S SOMETHING FUNNY AROUND HERE Mark Twain: A Ghost''s Story Donald E. Westlake: In At The Death Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Ghost of Dr. Harris "Ingulphus": The Everlasting Club Isaac Asimov and James Maccreigh: Legal Rites Albert E. Cowdrey: Death Must Die Frank Stockton: The Transferred Ghost Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost A NEGATIVE TRAIN OF THOUGHT August Derleth: Pacific 421 Robert Weinberg: The Midnight El STOP--YOU''RE SCARING ME Frederick Cowles: Punch and Judy Henry S. Whitehead: The Fireplace H. F. Arnold: The Night Wire 400 Fritz Leiber: Smoke Ghost 406 Wyatt Blassingame: Song of the Dead I MUST BE DREAMING Wilkie Collins: The Dream Woman 437 Washington Irving: The Adventure of the German Student A SÉANCE, YOU SAY? Joseph Shearing: They Found My Grave Edgar Jepson: Mrs. Morrel''s Last Séance Joyce Carol Oates: Night-Side CLASSICS M. R. James: "Oh, Whistle and I''ll Come To You My Lad" W. W. Jacobs: The Monkey''s Paw W. W. Jacobs: The Toll-House Edith Wharton: Afterward Willa Cather: Consequences Cynthia Asquith: The Follower Cynthia Asquith: The Corner Shop H. P. Lovecraft: The Terrible Old Man Erckmann-Chatrian: The Murderer''s Violin Saki: The Open Window Saki: Laura Fitz-James O''Brien: What Was It? Alexander Woollcott: Full Fathom Five H. R. Wakefield: He Cometh and He Passeth By Perceval Landon: Thurnley Abbey THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES Algernon Blackwood: The Woman''s Ghost Story Victor Rousseau: The Angel of the Marne Olivia Howard Dunbar: The Shell of Sense Marjorie Bowen: The Avenging of Ann Leete BEATEN TO A PULP Greye La Spina: The Dead-Wagon Urann Thayer: A Soul with Two Bodies Arthur J. Burks: The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee Thorp Mcclusky: The Considerate Hosts Cyril Mand: The Fifth Candle August Derleth and Mark Schorer: The Return of Andrew Bentley M. L. Humphreys: The Floor Above Manly Wade Wellman: School for the Unspeakable A. V. Milyer: Mordecai''s Pipe Julius Long: He Walked by Day Dale Clark: Behind the Screen MODERN MASTERS M. Rickert: Journey into the Kingdom H. R. F. Keating: Mr. Saul Chet Williamson: Coventry Carol
Synopsis
Over a thousand pages of haunted--and haunting--ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring 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!, 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
LC Classification Number
PR1309.G5B54 2012
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- a***n (43)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMistakenly ordered a paperback that I thought was a hardcover, not sellers fault; it was described properly on the listing. Seller still processed a refund the day I went to return the item and let me keep the item anyway. A+++ service. Book arrived quickly in great condition and for a great price. Thank you so much! Amazing seller!
- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.