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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 24, 2009 21:57:36 GMT
The House of the Nightmare & Other Eerie Tales (Bodley head)
chosen by Kethleen Lines
a classic rubbish purple cover with a flock of bats and a large blue circle. found this one at the back of my bookshelf and from the stamp inside it is clear i nicked it from my primary school...
Contents
From Imagination
The House of the Nightmare-Edward Lucas White
The Hauntings at Thorhallstead-Allen French
His Own Number-William Croft Dickenson
Gabriel-Ernst -Saki
Hand in Glove-Elizabeth Bowen
Mr Fox - Traditional
Curfew - LM Boston
John Bartine's Watch- Ambrose Bierce
The Monkey's Paw - WW Jacobs
My Grandfather, Hendry Watty - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
A School Story - MR James
The Red Cane - EF Bozman
A Diagnosis of Death - Ambrose Bierce
Bad Company - Walter DeLaMare
Proof - Henry cecil
The Amulet - Thomas Raddall
The Hair - AJ Alan
The Return of the Native-William Croft Dickinson
The Earlier Service - Margaret Irwin
From Life
Here I am Again! - charles G S --, Esq
The Man Who Died at Sea - Rosemary Sutcliffe
The Wish Hounds - Kathleen Hunt
The Man in the Road - FM Pilkington
My Haunted House - M Joyce Dixon
In Search of a Ghost - Eric Roberts
The Limping Man of Makin-Meang - Sir Arthur Grimble
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 24, 2009 23:36:43 GMT
My copy has quite a nice painting of a haunted house on it. I was obsessed with this book in primary school, and used to always grab it from the school library to read about Mr Fox's room full of bones and young women covered in blood. I was about 7, and it never had any effect on me later in life... er...
I strongly recommend "Curfew" by Lucy Boston. A fine Jamesian story indeed.
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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 25, 2009 9:48:08 GMT
cheers i'll give 'curfew' a peek. 'mr fox' was the first story i reread out of it last night!
'be bold, be bold...but not too bold'
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