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Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales to Read at Christmas (2017)

door Omnibus

Andere auteurs: E. F. Benson (Medewerker), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Medewerker), Francis Marion Crawford (Medewerker), Charles Dickens (Medewerker), Arthur Conan Doyle (Medewerker)14 meer, Elizabeth Gaskell (Medewerker), Lafcadio Hearn (Medewerker), O. Henry (Medewerker), Henry James (Medewerker), M.R. James (Medewerker), Rudyard Kipling (Medewerker), Perceval Landon (Medewerker), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Medewerker), Edith Nesbit (Medewerker), Margaret Oliphant (Medewerker), Arthur Quiller-Couch (Medewerker), Catherine Wells (Medewerker), H.G. Wells (Medewerker), Edith Wharton (Medewerker)

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As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it's the perfect time for a dash of fear...spine-chillers from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton and many more Do you believe in ghosts? Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual presence - a flicker in the corner of the eye, a shadow in a darkened hallway, a hand pressed against the window, or a figure at the end of the bed. Sometimes they are a malevolent warning, or they come seeking revenge, or as a horrible reminder of past misdeeds. But ghosts can visit on the brightest summer's day, or on a lonely stretch of beach, making themselves felt just when you least expect it. The great writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Rudyard Kipling, also produced some of the most influential ghost stories ever written, shaping the conventions of the genre for generations of writers to follow. Collected here are some of the most iconic of these Victorian ghost stories, from Charles Dickens's 'The Signalman' to M.R. James's 'A Warning to the Curious', alongside more unexpected contributions from masters of the form such as J.S. Le Fanu and H.G. Wells. You may think you don't believe in ghosts, but these stories will haunt you nonetheless.… (meer)
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‘’If the picture within was bright and cheerful, the prospect was dreary enough without. The fairy forest of snow-wreathed trees, the white valleys and undulating banks of snow had vanished, and the rain dropped slowly and sullenly upon a darksome expanse of sodden grass, and a dismal background of leafless timber. The merry sound of the sledge-bells no longer enlivened the air; all was silence and gloom.’’

In my household, Christmas is the time for mysteries, fairytales, Classics and ghosts. The ghosts of old, given voice in stories written by the Great ones, the writers that are always there to remind us of what Literature once was…

In this beautiful volume, the reader finds 19 ghost stories written by the likes of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, H.G.Wells, M.R.Jones, O.Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James and many more. You will experience disembodied cries and whispers in the dark, strange hands seen through windows, faces looking right into our souls, silent and sad. Apparitions of loves lost and forgotten and betrayed, of children seeking consolation, men and women trapped within curses and mortals who are left to tell the tale.

‘’Christmas came by and by - a real old English Christmas - frost and snow without, warmth and revelry within, skating on the great pond in the park, and sledging on the ice-bound high-roads, by day; private theatricals, charades, and amateur concerts by night.’’

A signalman witnesses a spectre that warns of danger, a young woman experiences the warmth of a child’s love while another is present in a powerful premonition of a death in the family. A skeleton apparition tricks a guest and a house-keeper understands the meaning of devotion beyond the grave. Two passengers on a train share a dark moment on a cold winter’s night and two old friends experience the odd events following the death of a rather unlikeable acquaintance. A girl elopes with a ghost while a woman haunts an old ship. In The Furnished Room by O.Henry, the story that moved me to the core, a desperate young man searches for his beloved in a room full of shadows and whispers.

No better way to start this year’s Christmas reads, methinks.

‘’He heard someone laughing, laughing in a manner that was neither happy nor pleasant. From other rooms he heard a woman talking too loudly; and he heard people playing games for money; and he heard a woman singing to a baby and he heard someone weeping. Above him there was music. Doors opened and closed. The trains outside rushed noisily past. Some animal cried out in the night outside.’’

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As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it's the perfect time for a dash of fear...spine-chillers from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton and many more Do you believe in ghosts? Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual presence - a flicker in the corner of the eye, a shadow in a darkened hallway, a hand pressed against the window, or a figure at the end of the bed. Sometimes they are a malevolent warning, or they come seeking revenge, or as a horrible reminder of past misdeeds. But ghosts can visit on the brightest summer's day, or on a lonely stretch of beach, making themselves felt just when you least expect it. The great writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Rudyard Kipling, also produced some of the most influential ghost stories ever written, shaping the conventions of the genre for generations of writers to follow. Collected here are some of the most iconic of these Victorian ghost stories, from Charles Dickens's 'The Signalman' to M.R. James's 'A Warning to the Curious', alongside more unexpected contributions from masters of the form such as J.S. Le Fanu and H.G. Wells. You may think you don't believe in ghosts, but these stories will haunt you nonetheless.

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