A House A-Haunt: Classic Stories of Haunted Houses, Horrific Rooms, and Other Ghastly Abodes

A House A-Haunt: Classic Stories of Haunted Houses, Horrific Rooms, and Other Ghastly Abodes - Paperback

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A House A-Haunt: Classic Stories of Haunted Houses, Horrific Rooms, and Other Ghastly Abodes

A House A-Haunt: Classic Stories of Haunted Houses, Horrific Rooms, and Other Ghastly Abodes - Paperback

by Algernon Blackwood , Oliver Onions
$47.79
Sale price  $47.79 Regular price 

Book Overview

The haunted house is a foundational motif in the literary ghost story. There may be a distinct spectral presence, or the building itself (or even just a room) may take on the supernatural essence. Authors have been playing with the theme for decades, exploring the idea of haunting and being haunted within what was intended to be a welcoming home, making clear that tragedy, pain, and evil leave their marks.

Eighteen stories and a short series ('The Ghost Hunters, ' by Allen Upward) are included in this volume.

Included are: The Ghost Story of Pliny the Younger; The Tapestried Chamber (Sir Walter Scott); The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington (Charles Ollier); The Haunted and the Haunters (Edward Bulwer-Lytton); An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House (Sheridan Le Fanu); The Ghost at Laburnum Villa (Anonymous); The Spook House (Ambrose Bierce); The Little Room (Madeline Yale Wynne); The Red Room (H. G. Wells); The House that was Not (Elia Wilkinson Peattie); A Case of Eavesdropping (Algernon Blackwood); The Southwest Chamber (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman); The Empty House (Algernon Blackwood); The Toll-House (W. W. Jacobs); Afterward (Edith Wharton); The Beckoning Fair One (Oliver Onions); The Attic (Algernon Blackwood); The Decoy (Algernon Blackwood); The Ghost Hunters (Allen Upward)

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ISBN9781616464820
Author Algernon Blackwood , Oliver Onions
PublisherCoachwhip Publications
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages616
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Algernon Blackwood

S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood's Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.

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