Ghost Stories

Chilling Tales of the Supernatural

By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Guy de Maupassant, E.F. Benson, and more

2024

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3.56

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304

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9H17M

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This handsome anthology brings together 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written, presented in a beautiful hardback edition with silver blocking on the cover and wonderfully gothic endpaper illustrations. Featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts, these tales will terrify and entertain in equal measure. Whether the apparitions are discovered by intrepid adventurers, solemn priests or mild-mannered academics, the haunted must reconsider their most basic assumptions and work out how best to respond to these supernatural assaults. Authors • Guy de Maupassant • E.F. Benson • Hope Hodgson • M.R. James • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu These uncanny tales will haunt you long after the book is closed...

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Authors

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Author · 8 books

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Guy de Maupassant

Author · 339 books

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.

E.F. Benson

Author · 108 books

Edward Frederic "E. F." Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. E. F. Benson was the younger brother of A.C. Benson, who wrote the words to "Land of Hope and Glory", Robert Hugh Benson, author of several novels and Roman Catholic apologetic works, and Margaret Benson, an author and amateur Egyptologist. Benson died during 1940 of throat cancer at the University College Hospital, London. He is buried in the cemetery at Rye, East Sussex. Last paragraph from Wikipedia

William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. Hodgson served with the British Army durng World War One. He died, at age 40, at Ypres, killed by German artillery fire.