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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
by Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert, F. Marion Crawford, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Walter de la Mare, Amelia B. Edwards, Arthur Gray, L.P. Hartley, William Fryer Harvey, W.W. Jacobs, Henry James, M.R. James, Robert Aickman, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, W. Somerset Maugham, Richard Barham Middleton, A.N.L. Muney, E. Nesbit, Oliver Onions, Barry Pain, V.S. Pritchett, Arthur Quiller-Couch, E.F. Benson, Simon Raven, L.T.C. Rolt, Walter Scott, May Sinclair, Bram Stoker, E.G. Swain, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, H. Russell Wakefield, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton, T.H. White, Christopher Woodforde, Elizabeth Bowen, Thomas Burke, Alfred McClelland Burrage, A.E. Coppard, Charles Williams

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• Genres: horror, fiction, anthologies, ghosts, classics, paranormal, gothic, supernatural
• Release date: June 13, 2002
• Format: paperback, 504 pages
• ISBN: 9780192840851 (0192840851)
• Author: Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert, F. Marion Crawford, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Walter de la Mare, Amelia B. Edwards, Arthur Gray, L.P. Hartley, William Fryer Harvey, W.W. Jacobs, Henry James, M.R. James, Robert Aickman, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, W. Somerset Maugham, Richard Barham Middleton, A.N.L. Muney, E. Nesbit, Oliver Onions, Barry Pain, V.S. Pritchett, Arthur Quiller-Couch, E.F. Benson, Simon Raven, L.T.C. Rolt, Walter Scott, May Sinclair, Bram Stoker, E.G. Swain, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, H. Russell Wakefield, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton, T.H. White, Christopher Woodforde, Elizabeth Bowen, Thomas Burke, Alfred McClelland Burrage, A.E. Coppard, Charles Williams
• Language: english
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

About The Book

With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people’s overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the dead.

As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition, this selection of forty-two stories, written between 1829 and 1968, demonstrates the tradition’s historical development, as well as its major themes and characteristics. Though the genre reached its peak in the nineteenth century, it enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and even now still attracts dedicated practitioners and readers. The anthology includes stories by Walter Scott, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, T. H. White, and many others.

Stressing the important contribution women writers have made to the genre, the collection also offers eight stories by women, ranging from Amelia Edward’s “The Phantom Ghost” (1864) to Elizabeth Bowen’s “Hand in Glove” (1952).

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