The Second Leonaur Book of Great Ghost and Horror Stories by Eunice Hetherington Hardback Book 9781782820482

Another brilliant collection of tales from beyond the veil Tales of ghosts and horror can be found in every age country and culture on earth they have been passed down orally for millennia and in written form have existed for almost as long as literature itself Although there have been notable novels of spine chilling hauntings there can be little doubt that the ghost story is a form ideally suited to short stories or novellas The story that frightens can be explicitly so with screaming phantoms a morality tale or humorous it can be subtly menacing with creeping horror and can be set almost anywhere Such stories have never waned in their popularity with the reading public and it is for this reason that so many authors have applied their talents to creating them Essentially we love to be thrilled and chilled simultaneously Some of the finest exponents of the ghost story have been specialists who became masters of the genre while others wrote scary stories to the same high standard as all their work In the middle of the 19th century the appetite for tales of terror burgeoned and a golden age was born that lasted until the outbreak of Great War It is probably fair to say that the...