Classic Ghost Stories: A Collection of Supernatural Tales

Gathered in this haunting collection are 34 of the best stories in the ghost story genre by British and American masters whose tales have become even more compelling over the years.Thrill to Henry James' tale of vengeance between two sisters married to the same man in The Romance of Some Old Cloths. Tremble at Charlotte Bronte's story of the imperious Napoleon's experience with a ghost. Travel with Sir Walter Scott to a beautiful English mansion with one terrible bedroom in The Tapestried Chamber. Laugh at Oscar Wilde's amusing parody, a tale of a British ghost tormented by an American family in The Canterville Ghost. Quaver at Edgar Allen Poe's The Oval Portrait. The introduction features descriptions of each writer's personal life, showing how their individual experiences, such as Guy de Maupassant's and Edgar Allan Poe's insanity, and Thomas Hardy's career in Gothic revival architecture, reflect in their writing.These tales of realms beyond the reader's own will terrify and thrill, and the beautiful slip-case edition make this collection a perfect gift for the Goth, literary reader, or ghoul.

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Robin Brockman is a freelance writer and editor with an abiding fascination for classic horror and ghost literature.

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