The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories
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Featuring stories by A.S. Byatt - Angela Carter - Lisa St Aubin de Teran - May Sinclair - Joan Aiken - Stella Gibbons - Edith Wharton - E.M. Delafield - Elizabeth Bowen - Ruth Rendell - and many more.
This collection gathers together deliciously chilling tales from the three highly acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories. Here lost loves, past enmities and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses, settle scores and haunt the imagination. All of the writers demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore the ghostly margins of the supernatural.
This collection gathers together deliciously chilling tales from the three highly acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories. Here lost loves, past enmities and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses, settle scores and haunt the imagination. All of the writers demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore the ghostly margins of the supernatural.
- Published: Oct 16 2008
- Pages: 512
- 198 x 130mm
- ISBN: 9781844085385
Press Reviews
- Time Out
A must for anyone who enjoys being thrilled
- The Times
With illuminating flair, Richard Dalby's collection shows off the ghost genre at its heyday...marvellous
- Observer
Corking good shudders all the way
- COSMOPOLITAN
Spooky stories from great women writers