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Post by valdemar on Apr 5, 2012 23:14:53 GMT
In 1984, Ladybird Books published a series of classic horror stories. They were quite beautifully illustrated and excellently edited. I would have hesitated to give them to a younger child, as the tales still had a bit of an edge, and the illustrations more so. The books were: Frankenstein; Dracula; Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde; The Hound Of The Baskervilles; The Mummy. The Invisible Man was published separately. 'The Mummy' volume is interesting, as it is the short story 'Lot 249', by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring a menacing, and fully ambulatory mummy causing mayhem at a university. The great thing here are the drawings: The mummy leaping from a tree to attack someone, and best of all, the illustration of it looming out of the night to do harm to the protagonist. 'Dracula' has some startling illustrations, too - Lucy[dead] flitting through the tombs in a cemetery; Dracula scaling the wall of his castle; Dracula's brides; The huge hound running ashore at Whitby. I love these books, but it is difficult to see at whom they were aimed: 'The Mummy' is Doyle's tale almost verbatim. They're worth getting if you can find them. ;D
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