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Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 816 pages, aukštis x plotis: 240x170 mm
  • Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2015
  • Leidėjas: Head of Zeus
  • ISBN-10: 1784080179
  • ISBN-13: 9781784080174
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 816 pages, aukštis x plotis: 240x170 mm
  • Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2015
  • Leidėjas: Head of Zeus
  • ISBN-10: 1784080179
  • ISBN-13: 9781784080174
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
"Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War II.

Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children.

And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them without their family's consent or knowledge are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.

What readers are saying about THE THROWAWAY CHILDREN:

""I haven't felt so immersed in a booked in a very look time and have recommended to just about everyone""

""Heart wrenching""

""A truly powerful book"""































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Recenzijos

'Madness, governesses, dead children and gloomy planets provide the chills in Louise Welsh's comprehensive collection of haunting stories ranging from the far past to the near future' Sunday Express. 'An excellent and varied collection of spectral tales and unsettling yarns ... it will delight any lover of the ghost story genre' The National. 'This massive anthology [ ...] features a dream list of legendary authors from Mary Shelley and Stephen King, to Hilary Mantel and Kate Atkinson. It's a beautifully presented hardback of gothic classics and stylish noirs that should be read from the safety of an armchair!' Creative Boom. 'A superb thousand-page collection of spooky stories that began with Mary Shelley and M R James and continued, via Kafka and Flann O'Brien, right through to chillers by modern luminaries such as Ali Smith, Hilary Mantel, J G Ballard and Haruki Murakami' Daily Telegraph. 'Fans of sleepless nights will covet this beautiful, heavy hardback of 100 creepy stories, full of classics of the ghost story genre ... At one a day it'll keep you awake for months' Diva. 'Ghost, edited by award-winning author Louise Welsh, features 100 spooky tales from such masters of the art as H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James and Henry James, as well as contemporary writers like Hilary Mantel, Lydia David and Stephen King' Choice Magazine. 'What's so nice about this collection is they have included the old-fashioned favourites with stories from Wilkie Collins, Bram stoker and Oscar Wilde. But also more modern authors like Fay Weldon' Lincolnshire Echo.

Daugiau informacijos

100 scary stories to read with the light on selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh.
Introduction
The Haunted House Pliny the Younger
1(2)
Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts
3(4)
Anon
Tarn O'Shanter
7(6)
Robert Burns
The Singing Bone
13(2)
Brothers Grimm
Captain Walton's Final Letter
15(5)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wandering Willie's Tale
20(13)
Sir Walter Scott
The Mysterious Bride
33(11)
James Hogg
Napoleon and the Spectre
44(3)
Charlotte Bronte
The Minister's Black Veil
47(9)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tell-Tale Heart
56(4)
Edgar Allan Poe
Christmas Ghosts
60(5)
Charles Dickens
A Terribly Strange Bed
65(11)
Wilkie Collins
The Old Nurse's Story
76(14)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Cannibalism in the Cars
90(6)
Mark Twain
Madam Crowl's Ghost
96(10)
Sheridan Le Fanu
Bobok: From Somebody's Diary
106(12)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Very Image
118(3)
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Dracula's Guest
121(9)
Bram Stoker
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
130(13)
Henry James
A Bad Business
143(4)
Anton Chekhov
The Canterville Ghost
147(19)
Oscar Wilde
The Withered Arm
166(20)
Thomas Hardy
My Own True Ghost Story
186(6)
Rudyard Kipling
John Charrington's Wedding
192(6)
E. Nesbit
Thrawn Janet
198(7)
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Yellow Wallpaper
205(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Dancing Partner
217(5)
Jerome K. Jerome
The Yellow Sign
222(13)
Robert W. Chambers
The Monkey's Taw
235(8)
W.W. Jacobs
Elias and the Draug
243(6)
Jonas Lie
Angeline or The Haunted House
249(7)
Emile Zola
The Inexperienced Ghost
256(9)
H.G. Wells
The Wind in the Rose-Bush
265(13)
Mary Wilkins Freeman
A Tress of Hair
278(5)
Guy de Maupassant
`Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
283(14)
M.R. James
The Readjustment
297(5)
Mary Austin
The Stranger
302(4)
Ambrose Bierce
The Rocker
306(8)
Oliver Onions
The Doll's Ghost
314(9)
F. Marion Crawford
The Room in the Tower
323(9)
E.R. Benson
On the Brighton Road
332(3)
Richard Middleton
How it Happened
335(3)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bowmen
338(3)
Arthur Machen
The Open Window
341(3)
Saki
The Lady's Maid's Bell
344(15)
Edith Wharton
The Terrible Old Man
359(3)
H.R. Lovecraft
The Ghost
362(6)
Richmal Crompton
The Nature of the Evidence
368(8)
May Sinclair
The Rocking-Horse Winner
376(11)
D.H. Lawrence
A Haunted House
387(2)
Virginia Woolf
Honeysuckle Cottage
389(17)
P.G. Wodehouse
The Second Death
406(4)
Graham Greene
A Rose for Emily
410(7)
William Faulkner
The Hunter Gracchus
417(4)
Franz Kafka
High Walker and Bloody Bones
421(2)
Zora Neale Hurston
The Vest
423(3)
Dylan Thomas
A Man from Glasgow
426(8)
W. Somerset Maugham
The Demon Lover
434(5)
Elizabeth Bowen
Money for Jam
439(8)
Sir Alec Guinness
Is There a Life Beyond the Gravy?
447(11)
Stevie Smith
Mars is Heaven
458(12)
Ray Bradbury
The Tooth
470(12)
Shirley Jackson
Two in One
482(4)
Flann O'Brien
Swaddling Clothes
486(4)
Yukio Mishima
Harry
490(10)
Rosemary Timperley
The Girl I Left Behind Me
500(3)
Muriel Spark
Poor Girl
503(14)
Elizabeth Taylor
Memory of a Girl
517(1)
Richard Brautigan
Black-White
518(6)
Tove Jansson
The Mangier
524(14)
Stephen King
The Dead Astronaut
538(9)
J.G. Ballard
Randal
547(6)
Robert Nye
The Vinegar Mother
553(12)
Ruth Rendell
I Used to Live Here Once
565(2)
Jean Rhys
The Death of Peggy Meehan
567(7)
William Trevor
A Beautiful Child
574(10)
Truman Capote
Fleur
584(10)
Louise Erdrich
The Lives of the Dead
594(11)
Tim O'Brien
Off-Broadway: 1971
605(20)
Jewelle Gomez
Death by Landscape
625(13)
Margaret Atwood
Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost
638(6)
Angela Carter
The Gourmet
644(29)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Prologue, 1963
673(5)
Tananarive Due
Nobody Knows My Name
678(10)
Joyce Carol Oates
Terminus
688(4)
Hilary Mantel
The Specialist's Hat
692(10)
Kelly Link
Stigmata
702(5)
Phyllis Alesia Perry
The Hanging Girl
707(10)
Ali Smith
Temporal Anomaly
717(8)
Kate Atkinson
The Mirror
725(4)
Haruki Murakami
The Strangers
729(1)
Lydia Davis
The Sagebrush Kid
730(7)
Annie Proulx
The White Cot
737(8)
Jackie Kay
Belonging
745(2)
Ben Okri
Dinner of the Dead Alumni
747(10)
Adam Marek
Sad, Dark Thing
757(10)
Michael Marshall Smith
Guests
767(10)
Joanne Rush
The Festival of the Immortals
777(5)
Helen Simpson
Grandpa's Ghost
782(4)
Fay Weldon
Ghost
786(2)
James Robertson
Extended Copyright 788
Louise Welsh is the author of six novels, including THE CUTTING ROOM, THE GIRL ON THE STAIRS and A LOVELY WAY TO BURN. She has been awarded a CWA Dagger and the Glenfidditch/ Scotland on Sunday award.