The Spook House
Death awaits them all ...A man stares into the deep river swirling beneath him - hands tied, noose around his neck - and waits for the order to end his life. Another is trapped for eternity in a room full of corpses. A cowering woman is strangled in the dead of night. These are just some of the...
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Death awaits them all ...A man stares into the deep river swirling beneath him - hands tied, noose around his neck - and waits for the order to end his life. Another is trapped for eternity in a room full of corpses. A cowering woman is strangled in the dead of night. These are just some of the countless victims for whom all hope is lost in Ambrose Bierce's chilling stories of death, delusion and the supernatural.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141038810 (0141038810)
Publish date: September 23rd 2008
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
This book was not too bad, but a bit monotonous, I'm afraid. Short and sometimes very short Gothic-like stories about haunted houses, people appearing and disappearing out of the blue mostly in the US but also in the UK.Just like Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce was a very interesting fellow, but he ...
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