Favorite Ghost Stories

Aidan Chambers, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Agatha Christie, Robert Westall, Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Catherine Storr, Oscar Wilde, August Derleth, Lance Salway, Mark Twain, Robert Arthur, Jan Mark, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Gordon


3.00 · 1 ratings · Published: 09 Sep 2002

Favorite Ghost Stories by Aidan Chambers, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Agatha Christie, Robert Westall, Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Catherine Storr, Oscar Wilde, August Derleth, Lance Salway, Mark Twain, Robert Arthur, Jan Mark, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Gordon
Following in the ghoulish shadow of Ghost Stories, the top-selling Story Library title, this new anthology is sure to chill and thrill with 15 of Aidan Chambers' favorite ghost stories. Offering spine-chilling tales from the highest caliber authors including Edgar Allen Poe, Agatha Christie, and Robert Westall, the soon-to-be-spooked will no doubt find this a perfectly haunting introduction to different genres of ghost story, and a compelling read that few will dare put down.

Includes:
"The Lonesome Place, August Derleth
"Such a Sweet Little Girl," Lance Salway
"A Ghost Story," Mark Twain
"Footsteps Invisible," Robert Arthur
"The Gnomon," Jan Mark
"The Haunted and the Haunters" (abridged), Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"If She Bends, She Breaks," John Gordon
"Room 18," Aidan Chambers
"Brownie," R. Chetwynd-Hayes
"The Lamp," Agatha Christie
"The Haunting of Chas McGill," Robert Westall
"The Tell-Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe
"The Death of Peggy Morrissey," William Trevor
"Christmas in the Rectory," Catherine Storr
"The Canterville Ghost" (abridged), Oscar Wilde

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