The Norton Book of Ghost Stories Hardcover - 1994
by Brad Leithauser (Editor)
Noted poet and novelist Brad Leithauser has collected 29 of the eeriest stories of the English language--written by some of the writers who have defined the genre, as well as lesser-known authors of the supernatural. Includes contributions from Edith Wharton, Henry James, and others.
From the rear cover
This spellbinding book will delight as it terrifies. Brad Leithauser, the noted poet and novelist, had excellence as his only criterion in assembling this collection of twenty-eight of the eeriest short stories in the English language. Included are the most intriguing works by the writers who have defined the genre over the years - Henry James, Oliver Onions, and M. R. James - as well as stories by other authors whose forays into the supernatural are less well known: V. S. Pritchett, Muriel Spark, John Cheever, A. S. Byatt, Elizabeth Taylor, and Philip Graham among others. This surprising gathering of writers makes this collection a must-have for confirmed ghost-story fans as well as for those who simply love good writing. Brad Leithauser's introduction redefines the genre, finding its origins in our fascination with the world beyond our senses. Whatever the stories' similarities, however, each creates its own unique atmosphere of uncanniness that is as hard to analyze as it is to resist. After all, it is "in their restless unease, their dissatisfaction with the provable", as Leithauser writes, that the ghost stories' bewitching power lies.
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- Title The Norton Book of Ghost Stories
- Author Brad Leithauser (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1994-10-01
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780393035643 / 0393035646
- Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ghost stories, American, Ghost stories, English
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94017383
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/1994, Page 25
- Publishers Weekly, 09/12/1994, Page 81
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