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He addresses what i perceived to be a fault with the new library of america anthology by peter straub: too many second tier sto... Read More
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The penguin book of ghost stories is an anthology of 19 oftcollected ghost storiesmichael newtons selection of what he considers to be the cream of the crop from elizabeth gaskells the old nurses story 1852 and sheridan le fanus green tea 1869 through edith whartons afterward 1910
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I would rank any of these anthologies over this penguin starter collection
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The only one i had never read before was lafcadio hearns nightmaretouch which reads more like a dream diary than a short story
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
By fitzjames obrien is not a ghost story so strictly speaking it probably should have been excluded from this collection
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By fitzjames obrien the haunted and the haunters or the house and the brain by edward bulwer lytton the cold embrace by mary elizabeth braddon the north mail by amelia b
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James the moonlit road by ambrose bierce the jolly corner by henry james the readjustment by mary austin afterward by edith wharton
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In my view some very good anthologies of ghost stories are weakened by a desire to pick surprising neglected or substandard stories by the best writers in the genre or second rank stories by largely forgotten writers
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