The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Title | The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cox |
Publisher | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 521 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 0192804472 |
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Title | The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cox |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 540 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Ghost stories |
ISBN |
This selection of forty-two stories written between 1829 and 1968 is the first to present the full range and vitality of the English tradition of literary ghost fiction. Fully satisfying what Virginia Woolf called 'the strange human craving for the pleasure of being afraid', it demonstratesthe traditions historical development as well as its major themes, and characteristics. The fictional ghost story is dominated by English authors, from J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James to Walter de la Mare and Robert Aickman, and by American authors, such as Edith Wharton, writing in the English tradition. As the editors stress in their informative introduction, a good ghost story,though it may raise many profound questions about life and death, entertains as much as it unsettles us. Featuring such authors as Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Henry James, and Elizabeth Bowen, this anthology combines a serious literary purpose with the plain intention of arousingpleasing fear at the doings of the dead.
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories
Title | The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cox |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 425 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Ghost stories |
ISBN | 9780192880383 |
12 Victorian Ghost Stories
Title | 12 Victorian Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cox |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Victorian writers excelled at the ghost story. Here editor Michael Cox brings together well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave. Traditional in form but inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise.
The oxford book of english ghost stories
Title | The oxford book of english ghost stories PDF eBook |
Author | Michael COX |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold
Title | Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Stocks |
Publisher | Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | 91 |
Release | 2013-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1409569179 |
Six spine-tingling stories dug up and dusted down for today's readers. Enter the terrifying world of Victorian ghouls and ghostly apparitions – if you dare.
The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
Title | The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Pepper |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780192781451 |
A collection of ghost stories from mainly U.K. authors. B/W illus. 8-14 yrs.