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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He told more about it to the priest than to others. He certainly had a secret to tell. He might as well have divulged it frankly, for the neighbours all knew well enough that it was the face of dead Ellen Coleman that he had seen. J.S. Le Fanu I felt a strange creeping sensation as I looked up the vast black staircase, wide enough for a coach to drive down, and at the heavy darkness bending over it like a curse. Rosa Mulholland On and on he glided, like an evil shadow, the very darkness seeming to loathe him as he passed. Oscar Wilde To walk through Irish history is to pass through a haunted landscape. Perhaps that's why so many of Ireland's finest writers found themselves drawn to the ghost story. This collection includes the work of canonical figures like Bram Stoker, J.S. Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, but also a wealth of lesser-known authors like Charlotte Riddell and Rosa Mulholland who were once bestsellers but are now unjustly neglected, all with a keen sense of Ireland's haunted character. Each story in this collection is presented with its original publication details, so readers can see exactly where and when it first appeared, and a brief biography of its author. Together, they offer a fascinating cross-section of Ireland's literary relationship with the supernatural. Each story in this collection, selected and introduced by Dr Stephen Carver is presented with its original publication details, so readers can see exactly where and when it first appeared, and a brief biography of its author. Together, they offer a fascinating cross-section of Irelands literary relationship with the supernatural. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire and blood. Despite the memoirs, histories, films, and photographs, it is the poetry of the First World War above all else that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or simply bear witness. Literature was changed forever, the new language of Modernism emerging, while a generation of gifted and sometimes great writers was lost. This collection thus includes the work of key figures like Owen, Sassoon, and Rosenberg alongside that of minor and sometimes amateur war poets, not just from the English-speaking world but from both sides of the conflict across Europe. Some of them survived. Most of them did not. This collection also combines the poetry of the front with the home front, particularly the voices of women, and of older, non-combatant literary giants like Kipling and Hardy. Poems are arranged by year to show the progression of the war, with each year prefaced by a short historical overview framed by a detailed Introduction. The collection concludes with brief biographies of every poet, adding to the heart-breaking story of the sacrifice, courage, carnage, and waste of war. It is the poetry of the First World War above all else that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or simply bear witness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. BRITISH GHOST STORIES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE GHOST STORY Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver. 'Only their eyes, their terrible eyes, were living; and those eyes were all turned menacingly upon me!' Amelia B. Edwards. 'I want to know what it is that walks about his room sometimes when he's out and when the door's locked on the outside.' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 'The madness of the living is a thing so abominable and fearful as to chill every human heart with horror; it is less than nothing in comparison with the madness of the dead!' Aleister Crowley. The Golden Age of the Ghost Story can be dated roughly from the last of the original gothic novels to the First World War. It runs from J.S. Le Fanu's early Victorian chillers, through Dickens' Christmas stories and the rise of Spiritualism, up to Le Fanu's natural heir, M.R. James. British Ghost Stories collects the eeriest tales of this period, selecting one from each of the most skilled UK writers of short supernatural fiction, men and women from England, Ireland, and Scotland, appending the first modern ghost story by Daniel Defoe. Each story is introduced with a brief biography of its author and its original publication details. This collection also includes the original stories from the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas series, 'The Signal-man', 'A Warning to the Curious', 'Lot No. 249', 'Man-size in Marble', and 'The Room in the Tower', with an Introduction exploring the history of the series, including ten tips from M.R. James on how to craft the perfect ghost story. Contents: The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J.S. Le Fanu The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards The Signal-man by Charles Dickens The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland Eveline's Visitant by Elizabeth Braddon Reality or Delusion? by Ellen Wood No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins Old Mrs. Jones by Charlotte Riddell The Body-Snatcher by R. L. Stevenson Man-size in Marble by E. Nesbit The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling The Judge's House by Bram Stoker The Man of Science by Jerone K. Jerome Lot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells Out of the Sea by A. C. Benson A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby Keeping His Promise by Algernon Blackwood The Highwaymen by Lord Dunsany Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson The Testament of Magdalen Blair by Aleister Crowley The Death Mask by H. D. Everett The Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James Crewe by Walter de la Mare APPENDIX 607 A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe The Golden Age of the Ghost Story can be dated roughly from the last of the original gothic novels to the First World War. British Ghost Stories collects the eeriest tales of this period, selecting one from each of the most skilled UK writers of short supernatural fiction, men and women from England, Ireland, and Scotland. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire and blood. Despite the memoirs, histories, films, and photographs, it is the poetry of the First World War above all else that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or simply bear witness. Literature was changed forever, the new language of Modernism emerging, while a generation of gifted and sometimes great writers was lost. This collection thus includes the work of key figures like Owen, Sassoon, and Rosenberg alongside that of minor and sometimes amateur war poets, not just from the English-speaking world but from both sides of the conflict across Europe. Some of them survived. Most of them did not. This collection also combines the poetry of the front with the home front, particularly the voices of women, and of older, non-combatant literary giants like Kipling and Hardy. Poems are arranged by year to show the progression of the war, with each year prefaced by a short historical overview framed by a detailed Introduction. The collection concludes with brief biographies of every poet, adding to the heart-breaking story of the sacrifice, courage, carnage, and waste of war. It is the poetry of the First World War above all else that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or simply bear witness. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He told more about it to the priest than to others. He certainly had a secret to tell. He might as well have divulged it frankly, for the neighbours all knew well enough that it was the face of dead Ellen Coleman that he had seen. J.S. Le Fanu I felt a strange creeping sensation as I looked up the vast black staircase, wide enough for a coach to drive down, and at the heavy darkness bending over it like a curse. Rosa Mulholland On and on he glided, like an evil shadow, the very darkness seeming to loathe him as he passed. Oscar Wilde To walk through Irish history is to pass through a haunted landscape. Perhaps that's why so many of Ireland's finest writers found themselves drawn to the ghost story. This collection includes the work of canonical figures like Bram Stoker, J.S. Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, but also a wealth of lesser-known authors like Charlotte Riddell and Rosa Mulholland who were once bestsellers but are now unjustly neglected, all with a keen sense of Ireland's haunted character. Each story in this collection is presented with its original publication details, so readers can see exactly where and when it first appeared, and a brief biography of its author. Together, they offer a fascinating cross-section of Ireland's literary relationship with the supernatural. Each story in this collection, selected and introduced by Dr Stephen Carver is presented with its original publication details, so readers can see exactly where and when it first appeared, and a brief biography of its author. Together, they offer a fascinating cross-section of Irelands literary relationship with the supernatural. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. BRITISH GHOST STORIES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE GHOST STORY Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver. 'Only their eyes, their terrible eyes, were living; and those eyes were all turned menacingly upon me!' Amelia B. Edwards. 'I want to know what it is that walks about his room sometimes when he's out and when the door's locked on the outside.' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 'The madness of the living is a thing so abominable and fearful as to chill every human heart with horror; it is less than nothing in comparison with the madness of the dead!' Aleister Crowley. The Golden Age of the Ghost Story can be dated roughly from the last of the original gothic novels to the First World War. It runs from J.S. Le Fanu's early Victorian chillers, through Dickens' Christmas stories and the rise of Spiritualism, up to Le Fanu's natural heir, M.R. James. British Ghost Stories collects the eeriest tales of this period, selecting one from each of the most skilled UK writers of short supernatural fiction, men and women from England, Ireland, and Scotland, appending the first modern ghost story by Daniel Defoe. Each story is introduced with a brief biography of its author and its original publication details. This collection also includes the original stories from the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas series, 'The Signal-man', 'A Warning to the Curious', 'Lot No. 249', 'Man-size in Marble', and 'The Room in the Tower', with an Introduction exploring the history of the series, including ten tips from M.R. James on how to craft the perfect ghost story. Contents: The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J.S. Le Fanu The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards The Signal-man by Charles Dickens The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland Eveline's Visitant by Elizabeth Braddon Reality or Delusion? by Ellen Wood No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins Old Mrs. Jones by Charlotte Riddell The Body-Snatcher by R. L. Stevenson Man-size in Marble by E. Nesbit The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling The Judge's House by Bram Stoker The Man of Science by Jerone K. Jerome Lot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells Out of the Sea by A. C. Benson A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby Keeping His Promise by Algernon Blackwood The Highwaymen by Lord Dunsany Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson The Testament of Magdalen Blair by Aleister Crowley The Death Mask by H. D. Everett The Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James Crewe by Walter de la Mare APPENDIX 607 A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe The Golden Age of the Ghost Story can be dated roughly from the last of the original gothic novels to the First World War. British Ghost Stories collects the eeriest tales of this period, selecting one from each of the most skilled UK writers of short supernatural fiction, men and women from England, Ireland, and Scotland. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He told more about it to the priest than to others. He certainly had a secret to tell. He might as well have divulged it frankly, for the neighbours all knew well enough that it was the face of dead Ellen Coleman that he had seen. J.S. Le Fanu I felt a strange creeping sensation as I looked up the vast black staircase, wide enough for a coach to drive down, and at the heavy darkness bending over it like a curse. Rosa Mulholland On and on he glided, like an evil shadow, the very darkness seeming to loathe him as he passed. Oscar Wilde To walk through Irish history is to pass through a haunted landscape. Perhaps that's why so many of Ireland's finest writers found themselves drawn to the ghost story. This collection includes the work of canonical figures like Bram Stoker, J.S. Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, but also a wealth of lesser-known authors like Charlotte Riddell and Rosa Mulholland who were once bestsellers but are now unjustly neglected, all with a keen sense of Ireland's haunted character. Each story in this collection is presented with its original publication details, so readers can see exactly where and when it first appeared, and a brief biography of its author. Together, they offer a fascinating cross-section of Ireland's literary relationship with the supernatural. Each story in this collection, selected and introduced by Dr Stephen Carver is presented with its original publication details, so readers can see exactly where and when it first appeared, and a brief biography of its author. Together, they offer a fascinating cross-section of Irelands literary relationship with the supernatural. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire and blood. Despite the memoirs, histories, films, and photographs, it is the poetry of the First World War above all else that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or simply bear witness. Literature was changed forever, the new language of Modernism emerging, while a generation of gifted and sometimes great writers was lost. This collection thus includes the work of key figures like Owen, Sassoon, and Rosenberg alongside that of minor and sometimes amateur war poets, not just from the English-speaking world but from both sides of the conflict across Europe. Some of them survived. Most of them did not. This collection also combines the poetry of the front with the home front, particularly the voices of women, and of older, non-combatant literary giants like Kipling and Hardy. Poems are arranged by year to show the progression of the war, with each year prefaced by a short historical overview framed by a detailed Introduction. The collection concludes with brief biographies of every poet, adding to the heart-breaking story of the sacrifice, courage, carnage, and waste of war. It is the poetry of the First World War above all else that has seared the horror of this conflict onto our collective memory. It was a war of poets, as professional writers and ordinary humanity took up the pen to try to record, interpret, mourn, or simply bear witness. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver.Only their eyes, their terrible eyes, were living; and those eyes were all turned menacingly upon me! Amelia B. Edwards.I want to know what it is that walks about his room sometimes when hes out and when the doors locked on the outside. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The madness of the living is a thing so abominable and fearful as to chill every human heart with horror; it is less than nothing in comparison with the madness of the dead! Aleister Crowley.The Golden Age of the Ghost Story can be dated roughly from the last of the original gothic novels to the First World War. It runs from J.S. Le Fanus early Victorian chillers, through Dickens Christmas stories and the rise of Spiritualism, up to Le Fanus natural heir, M.R. James. British Ghost Stories collects the eeriest tales of this period, selecting one from each of the most skilled UK writers of short supernatural fiction, men and women from England, Ireland, and Scotland, appending the first modern ghost story by Daniel Defoe. Each story is introduced with a brief biography of its author and its original publication details. This collection also includes the original stories from the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas series, The Signal-man, A Warning to the Curious, Lot No. 249, Man-size in Marble, and The Room in the Tower, with an Introduction exploring the history of the series, including ten tips from M.R. James on how to craft the perfect ghost story.Contents:The Tapestried Chamber by Walter ScottAn Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J.S. Le Fanu The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell]The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Phantom Coach by Amelia B. EdwardsThe Signal-man by Charles DickensThe Ghost at the Rath by Rosa MulhollandEvelines Visitant by Elizabeth BraddonReality or Delusion? by Ellen WoodNo Living Voice by Thomas Street MillingtonMiss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie CollinsOld Mrs. Jones by Charlotte RiddellThe Body-Snatcher by R. L. StevensonMan-size in Marble by E. NesbitThe Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard KiplingThe Judges House by Bram StokerThe Man of Science by Jerone K. JeromeLot No. 249 by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. WellsOut of the Sea by A. C. BensonA Strange Goldfield by Guy BoothbyKeeping His Promise by Algernon BlackwoodThe Highwaymen by Lord DunsanyThurnley Abbey by Perceval LandonThe Whistling Room by William Hope HodgsonThe Beckoning Fair One by Oliver OnionsThe Room in the Tower by E. F. BensonThe Testament of Magdalen Blair by Aleister CrowleyThe Death Mask by H. D. EverettThe Nature of the Evidence by May SinclairA Warning to the Curious by M. R. JamesCrewe by Walter de la Mare APPENDIX A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe The Golden Age of the Ghost Story can be dated roughly from the last of the original gothic novels to the First World War. British Ghost Stories collects the eeriest tales of this period, selecting one from each of the most skilled UK writers of short supernatural fiction, men and women from England, Ireland, and Scotland. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.