Haining Peter - The Mammoth Book Of Haunted House Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Expanded and with great new stories this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes to rarer and more kindly ghosts returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King Bram Stoker Ruth Rendell and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house. Stories include: Something unspeakable lurks in a Connecticut apartment closet in Stephen King's The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly horrifying in wait in The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson; The lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant in Norah Lofts Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously occupied by a doomed castle in In Letters of Fire by Gaston Le Roux; The hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth - century country mansion The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists avenging spirits and phantom lovers - curl up and read on but never imagine you are safe from a visit.
Title: The Mammoth Book Of Haunted House Stories
Author(s): Haining Peter, Peter Haining
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781845291853
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 7/28/2005
Series: Mammoth Books
Category: Short Stories