The New Young Oxford Book Of Ghost Stories

A collection of ghost stories from mainly U.K. authors. B/W illus. 8-14 yrs.

Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.

Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, pilots, dogs, monkeys, wagons, busses.

This is a collection of stories about all kinds of supernatural events and creatures. You'll meet vampires, witches, werewolves, banshees, screaming angels, scary scarecrows, gloves that will strangle you, rooms that will suffocate you, and things you can't bear to talk about. This successful collection is now being published in paperback and features stories by well-known writers such as Angela Carter, M.R. James, Philippa Pearce, Alison Prince, and Adele Geras. Also in the same series: The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories, The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings .

Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Owing to the continuing popularity of this collection of ghost stories, it is now being published in two mass-market format paperbacks, with new covers, new introductions, and new chapterhead artwork. In this first volume there are stories by Jan Mark, Adele Geras, Robert Westhall, RuskinBond, and many others.

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.