The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories (Mammoth Books) - Softcover

Haining, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854875361 ISBN 13: 9781854875365

Verlag: Robinson, 1998

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Reseña del editor

A collection of 20th-century ghost stories by writers as diverse as Jack London, P.G. Wodehouse, Daphne du Maurier, John Steinbeck, Winston Graham and John Mortimer. The book is divided into three sections: "The Golden Era"; "The Phantom Army"; and "The Modern Tradition".

Biografía del autor

Peter Haining was a prolific editor of anthologies and collections throughout all subgenres of fiction, and he also wrote his own short stories, recently a series about the Second World War. He collected and edited several books about Sherlock Holmes including The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook and The Television Sherlock Holmes to tie in with the iconic Jeremy Brett series of the eighties and nineties. He died in 2007.

Peter Haining wrote and edited a number of acclaimed books on the supernatural, including Ghosts: The Illustrated History, and A Dictionary of Ghosts, as well as fiction anthologies The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories. A former publisher and much admired figure, he died in 2007. He lived in a sixteenth-century house in Suffolk that is haunted by the ghost of a Napoleonic prisoner of war.

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• Verlag: Robinson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1854875361
• ISBN 13: 9781854875365
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512