Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 15 Four Ghost Stories The title cant be more obvious.

The appendix includes several rare texts, including “A Night in King’s College Chapel,” James’s first known ghost story.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. A light comic relief ghost story with a moral, not for humans but for ghosts. Included in this collection are such landmark tales as “Count Magnus,” set in the wilds of Sweden “Number 13,” a distinctive tale about a haunted hotel room “Casting the Runes,” a richly complex tale of sorcery that served as the basis for the classic horror film Curse of the Demon and “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,” one of the most frightening tales in literature. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre.

A Ghost story taking place in Germany ending with an against suicide moral. 5 The Baron of Grogzwig Chapter 6 from Nicholas Nickleby. James’s writings currently availableĬount Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. More than 4000 free eBooks in English to read or download for your computer, smartphone, ereader or tablet, The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. A Ghost story taking place in Edinburgh when a 19th century man finds himself as a passenger on a 18th century mail-coach with 18th century people.

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