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The Haunted Looking Glass
Edward Gorey

The Haunted Looking Glass

Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey

NYRB Classics (28 Feb 2001)
9780940322684
| Paperback
254 pages | 127 x 201 mm | English
$ 28.25 | Value: $ 28.25
Dewey 823.0873308
LC Classification PR1309.G5 .H38 2001
LC Control No. 00012341

Subject

  • Fiction

Plot

The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied by Gorey's inimitable illustrations.

ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, "The Empty House"
W.F. HARVEY, "August Heat"
CHARLES DICKENS, "The Signalman"
L.P. HARTLEY, "A Visitor from Down Under"
R.H. MALDEN, "The Thirteenth Tree"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Body-Snatcher"
E. NESBIT, "Man-Size in Marble"
BRAM STOKER, "The Judge's House"
TOM HOOD, "The Shadow of a Shade"
W.W. JACOBS, "The Monkey's Paw,"
WILKIE COLLINS, "The Dream Woman"
M.R. JAMES, "Casting the Runes"