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Title
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
ISBN
9780140071788

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Who better to investigate the literary spirit world that the supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? His own short stories have teased and twisted imaginations in their millions, but amongst the many permutations of the macabre, Dahl has always felt a special fascination for the classic ghost story. In this book of ghost stories he has selected fourteen of his favourites for this superbly disquieting volume.

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Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780140071788
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89035279

Product Key Features

Book Title
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1985
Topic
Short Stories
Genre
Horror
Author
Roald Dahl
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
181 mm
Item Weight
150 g
Item Width
111 mm

Additional Product Features

Editor
Roald Dahl
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Roald Dahl

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    • a pretty average selection from some unremarkable authors

      Roald Dahl didn't actually write these stories. His contribution, so he claims, was to read through hundreds of contenders in order to make a selection, and also to write an introduction in which he develops his thesis that to write a children's book is a greater accomplishment than to write a great novel. All a bit strange, as these stories are definitely not for kids - not only because of the vocab and writing style, but the 'adult themes' involved in many (beyond death and the afterlife, I mean). Most of the acknowledged masters of the genre, like MR James or Rudyard Kipling, are not featured, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary in the stories chosen; I have read plenty as good, and a fair number that are much better.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: cmedia_group

    • Excellent anthology of 14 short ghost stories.

      These are excellent ghost stories. Many were new to me and each held my attention. Roald Roald Dahl says in his introduction that he compiled a selection of 24 tales from reading as many as 749. This collection includes 14 of them (shame on Penguin for imposing an arbitrary limit and not printing all 24! I bet they could have included another at no extra cost on the seven blank pages at the back). He selected them originally with a television series in mind, so I wonder if he was thinking more of their dramatic possibilities rather than their effectiveness as short stories, because he dismisses the 725 he did not select as 'rubbish'. Some may have been, but there are many famous stories he did not include. However, these 14 are really good. Shame on television as well for not going into ...

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: webuybooks

    • A well read yellowed book...

      A well read yellowed book

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: webuybooks

    • ghost stories picked by Dahl

      4 really good stories here.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: momox_uk

    • Great, But don't bother putting stickers...

      Great, But don't bother putting stickers on the books please, nobody wants that.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: worldofbooks08