Buchdetails
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Seiten
224
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Nov 8, 2002
Verlag
Kingfisher
ISBN-10
075345484X
ISBN-13
9780753454848
Beschreibung
Following in the ghoulish shadow of Ghost Stories, the top-selling Story Library title, this new anthology is sure to chill and thrill with 15 of Aidan Chambers' favorite ghost stories. Offering spine-chilling tales from the highest caliber authors including Edgar Allen Poe, Agatha Christie, and Robert Westall, the soon-to-be-spooked will no doubt find this a perfectly haunting introduction to different genres of ghost story, and a compelling read that few will dare put down.
Includes:
"The Lonesome Place, August Derleth
"Such a Sweet Little Girl," Lance Salway
"A Ghost Story," Mark Twain
"Footsteps Invisible," Robert Arthur
"The Gnomon," Jan Mark
"The Haunted and the Haunters" (abridged), Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"If She Bends, She Breaks," John Gordon
"Room 18," Aidan Chambers
"Brownie," R. Chetwynd-Hayes
"The Lamp," Agatha Christie
"The Haunting of Chas McGill," Robert Westall
"The Tell-Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe
"The Death of Peggy Morrissey," William Trevor
"Christmas in the Rectory," Catherine Storr
"The Canterville Ghost" (abridged), Oscar Wilde
Includes:
"The Lonesome Place, August Derleth
"Such a Sweet Little Girl," Lance Salway
"A Ghost Story," Mark Twain
"Footsteps Invisible," Robert Arthur
"The Gnomon," Jan Mark
"The Haunted and the Haunters" (abridged), Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"If She Bends, She Breaks," John Gordon
"Room 18," Aidan Chambers
"Brownie," R. Chetwynd-Hayes
"The Lamp," Agatha Christie
"The Haunting of Chas McGill," Robert Westall
"The Tell-Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe
"The Death of Peggy Morrissey," William Trevor
"Christmas in the Rectory," Catherine Storr
"The Canterville Ghost" (abridged), Oscar Wilde
Genres
Kinder
Horror