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The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (Mammoth Books) [Kindle Edition]

Peter Haining (Author, Editor)

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"'A first rate list of contributors... Hair raising!' Time Out 'All we need say is buy it.' Starlog"

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Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernieres and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood.This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was published and in the intervening years a great many other distinguished writers have tried their hand at this popular genre - some basing their fictional tales on real supernatural experiences of their own.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1147 KB
Print Length: 612 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1845294769
Publisher: Robinson (23 Mar 2010)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B003DQ4WMU
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful

haunting selection 3 Dec 2007

By Dr. Robert A. Josey VINE™ VOICE

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A first-rate collection of ghost stories - ideal for this time of year.

The reason I give it 4 stars is that I wasn't too happy about the way the stories were introduced. It's good to have the bios of the authors involved. Even giving away the settings and dates of the stories was fine. But to present an italicised extract specifying the type of ghost in each one genuinely annoyed me. It was like a spoiler and I had to cover the top of each story so I wouldn't know what was around the corner.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful

Eerily good 9 Feb 2009

By S. Datta

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A great and extensive collection of stories, well organised by style and including several contemporary stories to match classics from the like of M R James. Perfect for cold autumn nights, shivering by the fire. The only negative I'd note is that also noted by the other reviewers. Having a paragraph at the start of the story detailing either the ghost or a particularly spine-tingling moment from the story really adds nothing to the enjoyment of them, and actively detracts.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

A good collection 29 Dec 2008

By R. Bull

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This is a thoroughly good read. A number of the stories are genuinely shocking- J.B.Priestley's story about the man trapped in an Underground train is brilliant, as is the one from Philip Pullman.
I agree that the synopsis at the front is a bit annoying, but I enjoyed the details provided about the author, which are helpful for further study.

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Not that Modern. I guess all ghosts are old

Most of the stories in this volume are decades old. I'm almost 50 and most of them are older than me. I was expecting Modern to mean at least post 1970. Read more

Published 1 day ago by Eric Dolphy

An excellent collection

This is an excellent collection. There are some essential classics from MR James, Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen; as well as some lesser known but equally chilling tales from... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Count Magnus

Typical Peter Haining.

Sadly, this is another Peter Haining opus, another one of his "cashing in on the backs of other authors" tomes. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Mr. S. C. Lyons

Caveat Emptor

Just a short note to point out that there is nothing from Ian Rankin in this volume. Plenty of other good stuff though!

Published 6 months ago by Ken Dodd

The curious note that we found

Among his papers we discovered the following notes - all the more curious because he had been the picture of health the last time we had met. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Gargantua Pantaloon

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