The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

by Michael Cox, R. A. Gilbert

Overview

Presents the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199556304
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/15/2008
Series:	Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	461,295
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Michael Cox is Senior Commissioning Editor, Reference Books, at OUP and is currently compiling 'The Oxford Chronology of English Literature' on a freelance basis. His previous books for the Press include 'A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works', 'Victorian Ghost Stories' (with R. A. Gilbert), 'Victorian Detective Stories', and 'The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories'. R. A. Gilbert is a well-known antiquarian bookseller and a world authority on the historiography of esoteric thought in general, and on the occult currents of the nineteenth century in particular.

Editorial Reviews

Review from previous edition "handsome Oxford collection of spooks...plenty of flesh-creeping matter here" The Times

"The perfect book for long winter evenings of drawn curtains and flickering firelight." Books and Bookmen

"an excellent cross-section of familiar and unfamiliar stories" New Statesman

From the Publisher