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1. The Oxford book of English ghost stories

   Beteiligt: Cox, Michael (HerausgeberIn); Gilbert, Robert A. (HerausgeberIn)

   Erschienen: 2008

   Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

   "This collection of ghost stories is the first to present the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written"--Back cover With their evocative settings amid mists and... mehr

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   "This collection of ghost stories is the first to present the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written"--Back cover 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 dead. As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition, this selection of forty-two stories, written between 1829 and 1968, demonstrates the tradition's historical development, as well as its major themes and characteristics. Though the genre reached its peak in the nineteenth century, it enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and even now still attracts dedicated practitioners and readers. The anthology includes stories by Walter Scott, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, T.H. White, and many others. According to Edith Wharton, we can judge the success of a story by what she called its "thermometrical quality; if it sends a cold shiver down the spine, it has done its job and done it well." A host of writers have taken up the challenge of succeeding at this most demanding form of literary art, including both "specialists" such as J.S. Le Fanu and Algernon Blackwood, and other writers such as Henry James and H.G. Wells, for whom ghost stories constituted only a portion of their literary output. Stressing the important contribution women writers have made to the genre, the collection also offers eight stories by women, ranging from Amelia Edward's "The Phantom Coach" (1864) to Elizabeth Bowen's "Hand in Glove" (1952).--Publisher description

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   Quelle:	Verbundkataloge
   Beteiligt:	Cox, Michael (HerausgeberIn); Gilbert, Robert A. (HerausgeberIn)
   Sprache:	Englisch
   Medientyp:	Buch (Monographie)
   Format:	Druck
   ISBN:	019955630X; 9780199556304
   RVK Klassifikation:	HG 823
   Auflage/Ausgabe:	Reissued
   Schlagworte:	Ghost stories, English
   Umfang:	xvii, 504 Seiten, 20 cm
   Bemerkung(en):	Die Erstveröffentlichung erschien 1986 Literaturverzeichnis, Seite [500]-504 Zusammenstellung von 42 Geschichten, die zwischen 1829 und 1981 verfasst worden sind Sir Walter Scott: The tapestried chamber Amelia B. Edwards: The phantom coach J.S. Le Fanu: Squire Toby's will M.E. Braddon: The shadow in the corner F. Marion Crawford: The upper berth Vernon Lee: A wicked voice Bram Stoker: The judges house E. Nesbit: Man-size in marble Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: The roll-call of the reef Henry James: The friends of the friends H.G. Wells: The red room W.W. Jacobs: The monkey's paw Mary E. Wilkins: The lost ghost M.R. James: "Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" Algernon Blackwood: The empty house Oliver Onions: The cigarette case Barry Pain: Rose Rose E.F. Benson: The confession of Charles Linkworth Richard Middleton: On the Brighton road E.G. Swain: Bone to his bone Arthur Gray: The true history of Anthony Ffryar W. Somerset Maugham: The Taipan May Sinclair: The victim L.P. Hartley: A visitor from down under John Buchan: Fullcircle W.F. Harvey: The clock H. Russell Wakefield: Old man's beard Edith Wharton: Mr Jones A.M. Burrage: Smee Hugh Walpole: The little ghost A.E. Coppard: Ahoy, sailor boy! Thomas Burke: The hollow man Charles Williams: Et in sempiternum pereant L.T.C. Rolt: Bosworth Summit pound A.N.L. Munby: An encounter in the mist Elizabeth Bowen: Hand in glove V.S. Prichett: A story of Don Juan Christopher Woodforde: Cushi Walter de la Mare: Bad company Simon Raven: The bottle of 1912 Robert Aickman: The Cicerones T.H. White.: Soft voices at Passenham