The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories

The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 425
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780192142603

Includes stories about the returned dead, haunted typewriters, and malevolent furniture by such authors as Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William Trevor, Fay Weldon, and A.S. Byatt

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 019955630X

The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.

The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories

The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Dennis Pepper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780192781789

Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2003
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 0192804472

Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories

The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories
Author: Patricia Craig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"The inadequate acknowledgement of women short story writers in standard anthologies is a cause for wonder or affront. How else, indeed, can you view it, given the riches overlooked?" So states editor Patricia Craig in her introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, a rich, wide-ranging collection that, at last, redresses this historical imbalance by bringing together forty examples of the very best women's stories--from established authors such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Mansfield, to such modern masters as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Bharati Mukherjee, and Amy Tan. Here readers will find humor, passion, eccentricity, forcefulness, elan, intellectual vigor, subversion--indeed every shading of tone and mood, from ironic detachment to full-blooded engagement. Each writer has her own, perfectly realized angle of vision, whether it's the zestfulness of Angela Carter, the breathtaking evocations of Willa Cather, the quirkiness of Grace Paley, or the pungency of Flannery O'Connor. Breaking with tradition, editor Patricia Craig offers few stories about traditional "women's" topics. Instead, the entries in this collection range from an unforgettable tale of racism in South Africa to explorations of adultery, immigration, the importance of cultural identity, and the rootlessness of American cities. Craig also includes some provocative offerings from outside the mainstream of twentieth century fiction--a ghost story by Edith Wharton, a delightful fairy tale, and several engaging historical pieces. Eloquent and captivating, The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories offers a dazzling assortment of classic stories and overlooked gems that will amuse, intrigue, and challenge every lover of fine fiction.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Author: M. R. James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1537822357

Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Author: Chris Baldick
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780199561537

Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Author: Theodore William Goossen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0192803727

Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.