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Roald Dahl's Book of ghost stories.
LIBRA - Special PR1309.G5 R62 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghost stories, English.
- Ghost stories, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 235 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Book of ghost stories.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983.
- Summary:
- Roald Dahl has selected fourteen of his favorite ghost stories that will deliver chills and goose bumps.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Roald Dahl
- W.S. / L.P. Hartley
- Harry / Rosemary Timperley
- The corner shop / Cynthia Asquith
- In the tube / E.F. Benson
- Christmas meeting / Rosemary Timperley
- Elias and the Draug / Jonas Lie
- Playmates / A.M. Burrage
- Ringing the changes / Robert Aickman
- The telephone / Mary Treadgold
- The ghost of a hand / J. Sheridan Le Fanu
- The sweeper / A.M. Burrage (Ex-private X)
- Afterward / Edith Wharton
- On the Brighton Road / Richard Middleton
- The upper berth / F. Marion Crawford.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374251312
- 9780374251314
- 0374518688
- 9780374518684
- OCLC:
- 10105986
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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