The Virago Book of Ghost Stories
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories

Author: Richard Dalby

Publisher: Virago Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 9781860491542

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Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.

The Acharnians
The Acharnians

Author: Aristophanes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1625580681

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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.

Vampire Stories
Vampire Stories

Author: Richard Dalby

Publisher: Gramercy

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780517228678

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Here are 18 bonechilling tales of these bloodsucking creatures of the night, written by some of the most distinguished writers of the genre. Premier writers including Anne Rice and Bram Stroker, represent some of the finest horror writing spanning the past two centuries. Here are gothic melodramas set in Russia and Germany, as well as more modern twists on the vampire legend that take place in contemporary England and the United States.