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Bezig met laden... Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories (editie 2015)door Audrey Niffenegger (Redacteur)
Informatie over het werkGhostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories door Audrey Niffenegger (Editor)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A good collection of old and new classic ghost stories, from Poe to Gaiman. Nothing too scary, but every story was good and some were excellently quirky (Honeysuckle Cottage). A perfect read for a night by the fire. ( ) Wanted to time this for Halloween, but alas, there was a line at the library. Worth the wait even if it is out of season now. Audry Niffenegger edits this collection of short stories and has added some illustrations as well. The stories are a quirky group, but work together well. Different time periods are represented, but beyond that they are chosen because the author liked them "their intimacy, their off-kilter matter-of-factness and their vivid evocations of order disrupted, sudden awful knowledge, the human condition as cosmic joke." That comes through nicely in a story of a vengeful cat (Poe), Tiny Ghosts, in which a couple's home is overrun with tiny ghosts, not unlike mice, The Open Window, by Saki -- classic! and Ray Bradbury's ultimate haunted house -- one that lives on alone after the people are gone (annihilated by a nuclear bomb). Chilling comparison to today's technology. I don't like scary stories (books and esp. movies) but this collection is more thought-provoking than horrifying. Mostly it shows the mind's capacity to haunt itself. Most of the 16 stories fit into Niffenegger's designated categories: "houses, lovers, children, cats: things that are frequently haunted...they can be more frightening because they were once innocent and beloved." "Dead is the most alone you can be" she states in the first sentence of her intro. These stories let you explore that idea at a safe distance -- you're still alive if you're still reading.
***** 5 out of 5 stars Review by Mark Palm Haunting Tales. When reading an anthology my first most basic criteria is, how good are the stories, does the anthology have a theme, how well do the stories fit? If the anthology is edited by a writer, however, I look for something else as well; how the stories reflect the taste and style of the author. I have read some that were great, and some that were not, but it’s always interesting to see an author reflected in their choices. Judging from Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories, Audrey Niffenegger clearly knows what she is doing. Her choice of stories are spot-on, and vary a great deal, from established names to the relatively unknown, and they date from Poe, M.R. James and Rudyard Kipling, all the way up to Kelly Link and Neil Gaiman. Her introductions are concise, and her illustrations are a revelation, invoking classic artists like Edward Gorey and Gustave Klimt. When it comes to the individual stories, I liked some better than others, but that is to be expected. I may face a scolding for saying this, but Poe’s The Black Cat was the only story I didn’t care for. I think Mr. Poe is generally overrated, and his tale added little to this collection, but reading The Mezzotint, by M.R. James, was wonderful. It’s not on the par with his classic “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come To You My Lad”, but it still shows why he is a master of the form. They by Rudyard Kipling is a true classic, but is rather scarce on chills. Two offerings by Saki, and Edith Wharton’s Pomegranate Seed are very effective, and certainly show why their authors are justly renowned. Ms. Niffenegger’s contribution, Secret Life with Cats is full of black humor and horror, while Playmates, by A.M. Burrage is full of shadowy spectres. My two favorite stories were The Pink House by Rebecca Curtis, which was full of subtle creepiness, and Click-Clack the Rattlebag, a surgically precise piece of horror fiction by Neil Gaiman. This wonderful collection is brought to an appropriate end with August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, a beautiful and sad story by the master, Ray Bradbury, about a haunted house of the future that updates Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” All in all Ms. Niffenegger showed that her editing skills, and her illustration skills, are every bit as good as her writing ones. She a rare triple-threat, and I look forward to her next work, whatever the medium. Full reviews available at: http://www.thebookendfamily.weebly.co... BevatErelijsten
"Collected and introduced by the...author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry--including her own new illustrations for each piece, and a new story by Niffenegger--this is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories of all time. From Edgar Allen Poe to Kelly Link, M.R. James to Neil Gaiman, H. H. Munro to Audrey Niffenegger herself, [this book] reveals the evolution of the ghost story genre with tales going back to the eighteenth century and into the modern era, ranging across styles from Gothic Horror to Victorian, with a particular bent toward stories about haunting--haunted children, animals, houses. Every story is introduced by Audrey Niffenegger, an acclaimed master of the craft, with some words on its background and why she chose to include it"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.0873308Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Horror fiction; Ghost fiction Ghost fiction CollectionsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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