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With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the...
About the Author
Michael Cox is Senior Commissioning Editor, Reference Books, at OUP and is currently compiling 'The Oxford Chronology of English Literature' on a freelance basis. His previous books for the Press include 'A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works', 'Victorian Ghost Stories' (with R. A. Gilbert), 'Victorian Detective Stories', and 'The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories'. R. A. Gilbert is a well-known antiquarian bookseller and a world authority...
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Review from previous edition "handsome Oxford collection of spooks...plenty of flesh-creeping matter here" The Times
"The perfect book for long winter evenings of drawn curtains and flickering firelight." Books and Bookmen
"an excellent cross-section of familiar and unfamiliar stories" New Statesman
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0192840851
- ISBN 13 9780192840851
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages528
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