The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
by Edith Wharton and Henry James and Walter de la Mare and H.G. Wells and Walter Scott and W. Somerset Maugham and T.H. White and Bram Stoker and Algernon Blackwood and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and W.W. Jacobs and E.F. Benson and Francis Marion Crawford and V.S. Pritchett and E. Nesbit and M.R. James and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Arthur Quiller-Couch and L.T.C. Rolt and Oliver Onions and A.M. Burrage and H. Russell Wakefield and Amelia B. Edwards and Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Elizabeth Bowen and R.A. Gilbert and Michael Cox and Arthur Gray and L.P. Hartley and William F. Harvey and Robert Aickman and Vernon Lee and Richard Middleton and A.N.L. Muney and Barry Pain and Simon Raven and May Sinclair and E.G. Swain and Hugh Walpole and Christopher Woodforde and Thomas Burke and A.E. Coppard and Charles Williams
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. The important contribution of women writers to the genre is shown with stories by Amelia Edwards, Edith Wharton, and Elizabeth Bowen amongst others, alongside M. R. Jame's 'Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', W. W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw', and H. G. Wells's 'The Red Room'. This selection of 42 stories written between 1829 and 1968 is the first to present the full range and vitality of the English tradition of literary ghost fiction by demonstrating its historical development as well as its major themes and characteristics. The fictional ghost story is demonstrated by English authors, from J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James to Walter de la Mare and Robert Aickman, and by American authors such as Edith Wharton, writing in the English tradition. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and even now still attracts dedicated practitioners and readers.
Release Date:
June 12, 2002
