Haunted looking glass : ghost stories

Haunted looking glass Ghost stories

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Subjects
Ghost stories, English.
Published
New York, NY : New York Review Books 2001, c1959.
Language
English
Other Authors
Edward Gorey, 1925-2000 (-)
Item Description
Originally published: 1959.
Physical Description
254 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780940322684
  • The empty house / Algernon Blackwood
  • August heat / W.F. Harvey
  • The signalman / Charles Dickens
  • A visitor from Down Under / L.P. Hartley
  • The thirteenth tree / R.H. Malden
  • The body-snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit
  • The judge's house / Bram Stoker
  • The shadow of a shade / Tom Hood
  • The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs
  • The dream woman / Wilkie Collins
  • Casting the runes / M.R. James.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

An elegant reprint anthology of 12 classic stories is The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen and Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Readers can trust that the late maven of the macabre has picked the most ghoulish works by the likes of Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, R.H. Malden and Robert Louis Stevenson. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Back in 1959, before he became as famous as he was at his death last year, illustrator Gorey selected 12 classic horror tales for this delightfully eerie anthology, which stands on its own merits as a historical introduction to the genre. But it's also a great entry into the warped sensibility that animated Gorey's twisted genius for densely illustrated narratives of absurdist dimensions. The classic yarnspinners are well represented here: M.R. James's tale of evil turned against itself; R.L. Stevenson's mystery of badness avenged; and Bram Stoker's tale of a house cursed with madness. Creaky and creepy houses figure into most of these stories, from Algernon Blackwood's haunted urban rowhouse to R.H. Malden's provincial gothic chiller. The bonus: each story begins with a Gorey illustration.

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