[PDF] The Oxford Book Of English Ghost Stories eBook

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 019955630X

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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 : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0192804472

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Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781789

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Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.

Author : M. R. James
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Collected Ghost Stories" by M. R. James. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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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.

Author : M. R. James
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2017-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1537822357

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Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144748052X

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This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart. As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly tales with remarkable subtlety and psychological depth. Her ghosts are not mere apparitions but poignant manifestations of guilt, regret, and unrequited desires. Through her elegant prose and sharp wit, Wharton delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring themes of forbidden passions, societal constraints, and the persistent power of the past. Each setting serves as the backdrop for chilling encounters with the spectral realm. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton is a testament to Wharton's versatility as a writer. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she imbues her tales with atmospheric tension, challenging the reader to question what lies beyond our mortal existence.