Name: 7 best short stories - Ghost Stories
SKU: 56782868
Price: 30.70 EUR
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Author: M. R. James
ISBN: 9786589575214

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

M. R. James

Publisher

Tacet Books

Language

English

Pages

222

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14x1.2 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9786589575214

Edited in

Brasil

Synopsis "7 best short stories - Ghost Stories"

Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories - specials, a selection of works dedicated to a special subject featuring noteworthy authors. This edition is dedicated to Ghost stories. These texts were chosen based on their importance, renown and relevancy on the subject. The critic Augst Nemo selected seven tales with tormented souls that will make you shiver: An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell, A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James, Nightmare-Touch by Lafcadio Hearn, The Furnished Room by O. Henry, The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling and The Open Window by Saki. Bonus content, the essay Supernatual Horror in Literature written by the visionary weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865), often known simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was a Victorian era English novelist and short story writer. Her novels provide a detailed portrait of the lives of many social strata, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians, as well as to literature lovers.

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer born on August 28, 1814 in Dublin, and who died on February 7, 1873 in the same city. He is best known for his mystery and horror stories. Coming from a family of Huguenot origin, his father was a pastor in various Protestant localities. Joseph studied Law at Trinity College, where he was appointed auditor of the University's History Society. He never practiced law, dedicating himself to journalism. In 1838, he began publishing stories in the Dublin University Magazine; and from 1940 he took control of several newspapers. In 1844, he married Susanna Bennett, with whom he had four children. Gradually, he became involved in politics due to his campaign against the British government's indifference to the Irish famine, but his personal life was complicated due to his wife's illness, who suffered from anxiety attacks and an advanced neurosis that apparently cost her life in 1858. Le Fanu stopped writing, tormented by the death of his wife, and did not do so again until the death of his mother in 1861, supported by his cousin, Lady Gifford, with whom he maintained correspondence until her death. Upon becoming the owner of the Dublin University Magazine, he took the opportunity to publish his novels in serial form in this magazine. Although due to the demands of editors and his readers he wrote stories and novels following the British fashions of the time, in his last stories he returned to Irish folklore as a source of inspiration.

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M. R. James

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Montague Rhodes James (rectoría de Goodnestone, Kent, 1862-Eton, 1936) fue director del colegio de Eton y decano del King’s College en la Universidad de Cambridge. A lo largo de su vida se interesó por la arqueología, la paleografía, la filología y las antigüedades. Consagrado al cuento de fantasmas solo como afición al margen de su magna obra académica, sus obras más conocidas dentro del género son Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost (1919) y A Warning to the Curious (1925). Gran reivindicador del escritor irlandés Sheridan Le Fanu, fue a su vez fue reivindicado por H. P. Lovecraft (Siruela ha incluido uno de sus cuentos en la antología El horror según Lovecraft).

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