Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

= Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories is a 1983 collection of Ghost stories selected by Roald Dahl.[1]

Dahl read 749 supernatural tales from an array of ghost storytellers at the British Museum Library before selecting 14 that comprise this anthology.[2] In the book Dahl writes; "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story".[3]

See also[edit]

 * Sheridan Le Fanu

References[edit]
Categories:
 * 1) Jump up^ Michael Ashley, William Contento The supernatural index: a listing of fantasy, supernatural, occult, weird, and horror anthologies Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995
 * 2) Jump up^
 * 3) Jump up^ Lisa Hefner Heitz Haunted Kansas: ghost stories and other eerie tales p.178. University Press of Kansas, 1997
 * 1983 short story collections
 * Short story collections by Roald Dahl
 * Jonathan Cape books

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