Ghost
100 Stories to Read with the Lights on
1st Edition
Published on 22. October 2015
816 pages
978-1-78408-016-7 (ISBN)
Description
Haunted houses, mysterious Counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this beautiful collection of 97 ghost stories will delight, unnerve, and entertain any fiction lover brave enough...
Here are gothic classics, modern masters, Booker Prize-winners, ancient folk tales and stylish noirs, proving that every writer has a skeleton or two in their closet.
The all-star cast of authors inlude:
Hilary Mantel, William Faulkner, Kate Atkinson, Henry James, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ruth Rendell, Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Helen Simpson, Haruki Murakami, Dylan Thomas, Bram Stoker, H.P Lovecraft, Lydia Davis, Sir Walter Scott, Annie Proulx, Bram Stoker, Angela Carter and Stephen King.
Here are gothic classics, modern masters, Booker Prize-winners, ancient folk tales and stylish noirs, proving that every writer has a skeleton or two in their closet.
The all-star cast of authors inlude:
Hilary Mantel, William Faulkner, Kate Atkinson, Henry James, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ruth Rendell, Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Helen Simpson, Haruki Murakami, Dylan Thomas, Bram Stoker, H.P Lovecraft, Lydia Davis, Sir Walter Scott, Annie Proulx, Bram Stoker, Angela Carter and Stephen King.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78408-016-7 (9781784080167)
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Person
Louise Welsh is the author of six novels, including THE CUTTING ROOM, THE GIRL ON THE STAIRS and A LOVELY WAY TO BURN. She has been awarded a CWA Dagger and the Glenfidditch/ Scotland on Sunday award.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Pliny the Younger: The Haunted House
- Anon.: Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts
- Robert Burns: Tam O'Shanter
- Brothers Grimm: The Singing Bone
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Captain Walton's Final Letter
- Sir Walter Scott: Wandering Willie's Tale
- James Hogg: The Mysterious Bride
- Charlotte Brontë: Napoleon and the Spectre
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Minister's Black Veil
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart
- Charles Dickens: Christmas Ghosts
- Wilkie Collins: A Terribly Strange Bed
- Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse's Story
- Mark Twain: Cannibalism in the Cars
- Sheridan Le Fanu: Madam Crowl's Ghost
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Bobok: From Somebody's Diary
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: The Very Image
- Bram Stoker: Dracula's Guest
- Henry James: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
- Anton Chekhov: A Bad Business
- Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost
- Thomas Hardy: The Withered Arm
- Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story
- E. Nesbit: John Charrington's Wedding
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Thrawn Janet
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
- Jerome K. Jerome: The Dancing Partner
- Robert W. Chambers: The Yellow Sign
- W.W. Jacobs: The Monkey's Paw
- Jonas Lie: Elias and the Draug
- Émile Zola: Angeline or The Haunted House
- H.G. Wells: The Inexperienced Ghost
- Mary Wilkins Freeman: The Wind in the Rose-Bush
- Guy de Maupassant: A Tress of Hair
- M.R. James: 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
- Mary Austin: The Readjustment
- Ambrose Bierce: The Stranger
- Oliver Onions: The Rocker
- F. Marion Crawford: The Doll's Ghost
- E.F. Benson: The Room in the Tower
- Richard Middleton: On the Brighton Road
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: How it Happened
- Arthur Machen: The Bowmen
- Saki: The Open Window
- Edith Wharton: The Lady's Maid's Bell
- H.P. Lovecraft: The Terrible Old Man
- Richmal Crompton: The Ghost
- May Sinclair: The Nature of the Evidence
- D.H. Lawrence: The Rocking-Horse Winner
- Virginia Woolf: A Haunted House
- P.G. Wodehouse: Honeysuckle Cottage
- Graham Greene: The Second Death
- William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily
- Franz Kafka: The Hunter Gracchus
- Zora Neale Hurston: High Walker and Bloody Bones
- Dylan Thomas: The Vest
- W. Somerset Maugham: A Man from Glasgow
- Elizabeth Bowen: The Demon Lover
- Sir Alec Guinness: Money for Jam
- Stevie Smith: Is There a Life Beyond the Gravy?
- Ray Bradbury: Mars is Heaven
- Shirley Jackson: The Tooth
- Flann O'Brien: Two in One
- Yukio Mishima: Swaddling Clothes
- Rosemary Timperley: Harry
- Muriel Spark: The Girl I Left Behind Me
- Elizabeth Taylor: Poor Girl
- Richard Brautigan: Memory of a Girl
- Tove Jansson: Black-White
- Stephen King: The Mangler
- J.G. Ballard: The Dead Astronaut
- Robert Nye: Randal
- Ruth Rendell: The Vinegar Mother
- William Trevor: The Death of Peggy Meehan
- Louise Erdrich: Fleur
- Tim O'Brien: The Lives of the Dead
- Jewelle Gomez: Off-Broadway: 1971
- Angela Carter: Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost
- Kazuo Ishiguro: The Gourmet
- Tananarive Due: Prologue, 1963
- Joyce Carol Oates: Nobody Knows My Name
- Hilary Mantel: Terminus
- Kelly Link: The Specialist's Hat
- Phyllis Alesia Perry: Stigmata
- Ali Smith: The Hanging Girl
- Kate Atkinson: Temporal Anomaly
- Haruki Murakami: The Mirror
- Lydia Davis: The Strangers
- Annie Proulx: The Sagebrush Kid
- Jackie Kay: The White Cot
- Ben Okri: Belonging
- Adam Marek: Dinner of the Dead Alumni
- Michael Marshall Smith: Sad, Dark Thing
- Joanne Rush: Guests
- Helen Simpson: The Festival of the Immortals
- Fay Weldon: Grandpa's Ghost
- James Robertson: Ghost
- Acknowledgements
- Extended Copyright
- About Ghost
- Reviews
- About Louise Welsh
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
