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Loading... The Haunted Looking Glass (New York Review Books Classics) (edition 2001)by Edward Gorey (Editor), Edward Gorey (Illustrator), Algernon Blackwood (Contributor), W.F. Harvey (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor) — 9 more, L.P. Hartley (Contributor), R.H. Malden (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), E. Nesbit (Contributor), Bram Stoker (Contributor), Tom Hood (Contributor), W.W. Jacobs (Contributor), Wilkie Collins (Contributor), M.R. James (Contributor)
Work InformationThe Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey (Editor & illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A solid set of picks by the master himself. There are a few clunkers but there are some real spine tinglers in here as well - August Heat is a masterpiece I'd somehow never read, and Casting the Runes proves to me I need to seek out more MR James as soon as possible. Gorey's illustrations are minimal (one per story plus a frontispiece for the entire collection) but for the most part powerful and well-chosen. ( ) I have only myself to blame for buying this collection yesterday after seeing its lovely Edward Gorey cover on display at my favorite bookstore, because I know perfectly well that ghost stories don't do anything for me. And indeed, they didn't, despite the equally lovely Edward Gorey illustrations that act as frontispieces for each story and the illustrious authors who include Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker and, more surprisingly (to me, anyway), L.P. Hartley. Some were ingenious, most were well written, nearly all were utterly predictable -- well, as I said, I have only myself to blame. no reviews | add a review
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A collection of twelve ghost stories by various authors. No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.0873308Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction By Type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Horror and ghost fiction Ghost fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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