Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

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Overview

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.

It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming.

And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast live on the wireless, sometimes not even published at all – these are the stories you cannot find on even the dustiest of library shelves.

Ghosts from the Library resurrects forgotten tales of the supernatural by some of the most acclaimed mystery authors of all time. From Arthur Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr to Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier, this spine-chilling anthology brings together thirteen uncollected tales of terror, plus some additional surprises.

Close the windows. Draw the curtains. Just don’t let the lights go out…


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780008514846
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/17/2023
Series: Bodies from the Library Special
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 87,782
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Editor Tony Medawar is a detective fiction expert and researcher with a penchant for tracking down rare stories. In addition to the Bodies from the Library series, he has edited collections including While the Light Lasts (Agatha Christie), The Avenging Chance (Anthony Berkeley), The Spotted Cat (Christianna Brand), A Spot of Folly (Ruth Rendell) The 9.50 Up Express (Freeman Wills Crofts), and the book Murder, She Said: The Quotable Miss Marple.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Ghost Stories 1

G. K. Chesterton 6

Deborah 9

Josephine Tey 18

The Red Balloon 23

Q Patrick 38

Terror 41

Daphne du Maurier 46

The Green Dress 49

Anthony Berkeley 62

The Haunted House 65

A. Fielding 81

Personal Call 83

Agatha Christie 104

The Woman Who Cried 107

H. C. Bailey 122

The Witch 125

Christianna Brand 172

Death in a Dream 175

Laurence Meynell 180

The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe 185

Arthur Conan Doyle 195

Misleading Lady 199

Margery Allingham 216

The Legend of the Cane in the Dark 219

John Dickson Carr 224

St Bartholomew's Day 227

Edmund Crispin 244

Martin's Close 247

M. R. James 272

Coda to the Late Provost's Ghost Story 269

Dorothy L. Sayers 272

Acknowledgements 275

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