by Oscar Wilde This is one of those Classic stories I've meant to read for years and have finally got to it. Oscar Wilde comes from an era when characters were written bigger than life, even when they are dead. Many clichés of ghost story writing, like blood stains that reappear after being cleane...
This short-story by Oscar Wilde was charming and not in the least bit scary. I will say, however, that it’s amongst one of my least favourite works of his. The ending made me smile, though, and elevated it for me. It’s likely that most people have read this or heard a lot about it, so I won’t go i...
The Canterville Ghost is a charming novella by Oscar Wilde, dating, I believe, to about 1887. The American Minister to the Court of St. James rents the country house of the Canterville family, despite being informed that it's haunted by a dire ghost, because he doesn't believe in ghosts. Also he f...
The ghost looses. Outrageously. Quick and hilarious. Drama queen ghost, terror twins, painter mary-sue (*snigger* that paint chat, lol), prepared big brother (stain remover in his pocket?) and practical American Minister, it was all fun. Hands down, the theatrical haunting anecdotes were where I w...
The Books: Bingo No. 3: Witches – Terry Pratchett / Neil Gaiman: Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's hilarious end-of-the-world spoof: Armageddon as foretold in the nice and accurate predictions of one Agnes Nutter, witch. (Time of Armageddon: Next Saturday. Place: Tadfield, Oxfordshire.)...
Sir Simon, the 300 year old resident ghost of Canterville Manor, takes his haunting very seriously. Over the centuries his terrifying spectral performances have sent more than a few Canterville descendants, visitors and servants off the deep-end, never to recover. All that changes when the current L...
I fell in love with the TV adaptation of this story decades ago, but only recently went searching of the original story. Well, of course, the two are very different. Oscar Wilde's book is much more about the ghost's comeuppance, with a firm jab at American consumerism and involves a lot more chil...
Given this is Oscar Wilde (whom I do rather adore, admittedly), I have absolutely no idea why I thought this would bear any resemblance to a traditional ghost story. (Spoiler alert: it kind of doesn't.) It goes back and forth between being hilarious (Oscar Wilde, so of course it is) and kind of d...
I read one of Oscar Wilde's book as part of the Dead Writers Society Literary Birthday Challenge. I picked this story because I wanted something short that was not going to totally derail my other planned books to be read.From start to finish this book was in equal turns funny and wistful at times.W...
Of all stories of Oscar Wilde I've read so far this one is the only one I desliked. I know he has this mania of giving his ends a religiuos explanation or putting some holy elements, but in this story it didn't work. I appreciated the story, but there was too much narrative, I mean the story was bei...
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