Summary
Expanded with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead--from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favorite haunted house tales chosen byfamous screen stars such as Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. In addition, a top ranking list of contributors includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert--all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house.
Contents
The haunted house / by Elizabeth Albright and Ray BradburyThe haunted and the haunters / Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Authentic narrative of a haunted house / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A case of eavesdropping / Algernon Blackwood
A haunted house / Virginia Woolf
Ghost hunt / H. Russell Wakefield
Dark winner / William F. Nolan
The old house in Vauxhall Walk / Charlotte Riddell
No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince / Ralph Adams Cram
The southwest chamber / Mary Eleanor Freeman
The toll-house / W.W. Jacobs
Feet foremost / L.P. Hartley
Happy hour / Ian Watson
The Ankardyne pew / W.F. Harvey
The real and the counterfeit / Louisa Baldwin
A night at a cottage
/ Richard Hughes
The considerate hosts / Thorp McClusky
The grey house / Basil Copper
Watching me, watching you / Fay Weldon
A spirit elopement / Richard Dehan
The house of dust / Herbert de Hamel
The Kisstruck bogie / A.E. Coppard
Mr Edward / Norah Lofts
House of the hatchet / Robert Bloch
Napier court / Ramsey Campbell
Lost hearts / M.R. James
The shadowy third / Ellen Glasgow
A little ghost / Hugh Walpole
The patter of tiny feet / Nigel Kneale
Uninvited ghosts / Penelope Lively
Playing with fire / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The whistling room / William Hope Hodgson
Bagnell terrace / E.F. Benson
The companion / Joan Aiken
The ghost hunter / James Herbert
Computer seĢance / Ruth Rendell
In letters of fire / Gaston Leroux
The judge's house / Bram Stoker
The storm / McKnight Malmar
The waxwork / A.M. Burrage
The inexperienced ghost / H.G. Wells
Sophy Mason comes back / E.M. Delafield
The boogeyman / Stephen King.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Ghost stories, English.
Ghost stories, American. Haunted houses -- Fiction. |
| Publisher | New York :Carroll & Graf,2005 |
| Edition | Rev. ed. |
| Other Titles | Haunted house stories |
| Contributors |
Haining, Peter.
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| Language |
English |
| Description |
xiv, 689 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography Notes |
"Haunted house novels: a listing": pages [683]-689. |
| ISBN | 0786716037 |
| Other | Classic View |