The Oxford book of English ghost stories / chosen by Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Format/Description:

Book
xvii, 504 pages ; 20 cm

Subjects:

Ghost stories, English.

Contents:

The tapestried chamber / Sir Walter Scott
The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards
Squire Toby's will / J.S. Le Fanu
The shadow in the corner / M.E. Braddon
The upper berth / F. Marion Crawford
A wicked voice / Vernon Lee
The judges house / Bram Stoker
Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit
The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
The friends of the friends / Henry James
The red room / H.G. Wells
The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs
The lost ghost / Mary E. Wilkins
"Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad" / M.R. James
The empty house / Algernon Blackwood
The cigarette case / Oliver Onions
Rose Rose / Barry Pain
The confession of Charles Linkworth / E.F. Benson
On the Brighton road / Richard Middleton
Bone to his bone / E.G. Swain
The true history of Anthony Ffryar / Arthur Gray
The Taipan / W. Somerset Maugham
The victim / May Sinclair
A visitor from down under / L.P. Hartley
Fullcircle / John Buchan
The clock / W.F. Harvey
Old man's beard / H. Russell Wakefield
Mr Jones / Edith Wharton
Smee / A.M. Burrage
The little ghost / Hugh Walpole
Ahoy, sailor boy! / A.E. Coppard
The hollow man / Thomas Burke
Et in sempiternum pereant / Charles Williams
Bosworth Summit pound / L.T.C. Rolt
An encounter in the mist / A.N.L. Munby
Hand in glove / Elizabeth Bowen
A story of Don Juan / V.S. Prichett
Cushi / Christopher Woodforde
Bad company / Walter de la Mare
The bottle of 1912 / Simon Raven
The Cicerones / Robert Aickman
Soft voices at Passenham / T.H. White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 500-504).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1989

Contributor:

Cox, Michael, 1948-2009.
Gilbert, R. A.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

ISBN:

0192826662
9780192826664

OCLC:

19553941

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