The English Ghost

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099287579
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Ghost written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A winning compendium' Daily Telegraph The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. The English Ghost is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill. 'Ackroyd's book has its fair share of terrified hauntees and, unless you're a sceptic, there are plenty of scenes that will make the hairs on the back of your neck bristle' Mail on Sunday 'Ackroyd's collection glides seamlessly from terror to humour to downright peculiarity: it is the ideal read as the nights darken and Halloween approaches' Metro 'A fascinating anthology' Literary Review 'This is a wonderful little book. It's properly old-fashioned and unorthodox, a scrapbook of clues, tittle-tattle, hints and mortal byways' Independent

Author : Sarah Perry
Publisher : September Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910463744
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Ghosts written by Sarah Perry and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. 'An impressive line-up of established and emerging names.' The Sunday Times 'These eerie, unsettling stories are guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.' Daily Express Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. 'Subtly evocative of human relations loss, grief, or the fear of loneliness.' TLS 'A satisfying and spooky read.' Sun Also includes a gazetteer of English Heritage properties which are said to be haunted.

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019955630X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781781165607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An English Ghost Story written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dysfunctional British nuclear family seek a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most, threatening to destroy them from the inside out--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Jack Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegant Nightmares written by Jack Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Hay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230316832
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Modern British Ghost Story written by S. Hay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.

Author : Jack Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Souls written by Jack Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marie O'Regan
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780330251
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women written by Marie O'Regan and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .

Author : Joe Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Fever written by Joe Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, fourteen-year-old Elena Padilla and her father move into a haunted house in Duston, Arizona, where only Elena can see and help the ghost of the young girl who died there.

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192804472
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.