Monday, April 22, 2013

PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest

World's 25 Most Popular Ghost Stories (of the 19th Century): T. M. Gray, Charles G. Waugh: 9781935573609: Amazon.com: Books: World's 25 Most Popular Ghost Stories (of the 19th Century) brings you twenty-five of the most popular ghost stories ever written together in this one collection. Stories by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as wells as a few not so well-known authors of today, such as Wilkie Collins, F. Marion Crawford, or Margaret Oliphant, are included in this collection. These stories are classified as the World's Most Popular Ghost Stories as they were the most frequently reprinted 19th Century ghost stories as determined by Mike Ashley and William G. Contento's The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies, 1995-, a 900-page reference work. 6x9, soft cover, 496 total pages.

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