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Title: Great Ghost Stories by John Grafton ISBN: 0-486-27270-2 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 30 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great selections of ghost stories...at an unbeatable price!
Comment: Ten classic horror tales that will have you keeping the lights on at night! These tales were published between 1864 and 1912, which is considered by some to be the "golden age" of horror and supernatural fiction. These stories are a great cross-section of the genre, and at this low price, it makes a wonderful introduction to the classic ghost stories.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good introduction to classic ghost stories....
Comment: Why an "introduction"? If you are a fan of ghost stories and have a collection of books on the subject, you probably already have all the stories in this book. I will not list them all since another reviewer has already done so.
Although all of the stories deal with ghosts (well, "The Monkey's Paw" is arguably not a ghost story, but spooky nonetheless), most of them do not deal with a malevolent spirit bent on our destruction. Only "The Judge's House" and "A Ghost Story" deal with an angry spirit. The rest are tales of ghostly happenings, but nothing like you might find in a horror movie.
Given the price, I would recommend this to someone who does not normally read a lot of ghost stories. Otherwise, you probably have these in your collection already.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic authors
Comment: With all fairness to these legendary authors who have endured with us beyond their time, and to their mastery of writing to which we all aspire, it is a difficult old world, almost archaic, style of writing for me- to understand the story beyond the writing. I most enjoyed the first story, the haunted coach ride, and one of the other stories with the rat on the bell rope, but after that, my interest waned somewhat. The stories weren't frightening to me. But the importance of these readings- these are classic writers. I highlighted new words and looked them up- something gained after all.
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Title: Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others by John Grafton ISBN: 0486404307 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce ISBN: 0486400565 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining ISBN: 0786707917 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Bottomless Grave : and Other Victorian Tales of Terror by Hugh Lamb ISBN: 0486415902 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 26 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title: Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories by J. Sheridan LeFanu ISBN: 048627795X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 12 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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