Things
Karl Miller, 2 April 1987
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
by Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert.
Oxford, 504 pp., £12.95, October 1986,0 19 214163 5 Show More
by Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert.
Oxford, 504 pp., £12.95, October 1986,
The Ghost Stories of M.R. James
by Michael Cox.
Oxford, 224 pp., £12.45, November 1986,9780192122551 Show More
by Michael Cox.
Oxford, 224 pp., £12.45, November 1986,
Supernatural Tales
by Vernon Lee.
Peter Owen, 222 pp., £10.95, February 1987,0 7206 0680 2 Show More
by Vernon Lee.
Peter Owen, 222 pp., £10.95, February 1987,
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
edited by Jack Sullivan.
Viking, 482 pp., £14.95, October 1986,0 670 80902 0 Show More
edited by Jack Sullivan.
Viking, 482 pp., £14.95, October 1986,
Ghostly Populations
by Jack Matthews.
Johns Hopkins, 171 pp., £11.75, March 1987,0 8018 3391 4 Show More
by Jack Matthews.
Johns Hopkins, 171 pp., £11.75, March 1987,
“... that in that state you are especially likely to see what you expect to see.’ The story is by Barry Pain. Despite the impression which the Oxford Book imparts, ghost stories go back a long way before the 19th century. And so does their authorial explanation. Ghosts are creatures of habit, and of Hamlet: Shakespeare’s play is a ghost story which has ... ”