{"product_id":"9780141442365-the-penguin-book-of-ghost-stories","title":"The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce\u003cbr\u003eA selection of ghost stories. From \"The Old Nurse's Story\" through to \"Afterword\", it covers the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction, and helpful notes, it places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56443124613494,"sku":"9780141442365","price":11.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34163644.jpg?v=1760417354","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141442365-the-penguin-book-of-ghost-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}