Tsukareta Kagami: Edowādo Gōrī Ga Aisuru Jūni No Kaidan
by:
柴田 元幸 (author)
小山 太一 (author)
Edward Gorey (author)
W・F・ハーヴィ (author)
ISBN:
9784309204659 (4309204651)
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Kawade Shobō Shinsha
Pages no: 308
Edition language: Japanese
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Paranormal,
Literature,
Anthologies,
19th Century,
Horror,
Ghost Stories,
Short Stories,
Gothic,
Supernatural,
Ghosts
So the great Gorey and I have some of the same tastes in fiction. And we both like cats.Some of these stories are well known - such as "The Monkey's Paw", which is one of those stories that never grows stale at all. Others are not, such as "August Heat", a rather chilling tale. What is interesting i...
I just received a replacement copy for the missing-who-knows-how-long hardcover from my collection. Guess what I'm looking forward to for All Hallow's Read? Perfect!personal copy
A collection of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories, each with an illustration by the ever-pleasing Edward Gorey. All of the stories fit into Gorey's peculiar aesthetic, and several such as Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatcher" and W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" have become ubiquitous wit...
Some of these stories were better than others (ahem, The Empty House) but I knew Edward Gorey and the Victorians (the name of my future band) wouldn't let me down. The Victorians wrote the best ghost stories; they truly excel at 1) setting an atmosphere, and 2) conveying a creepy or scary story with...
My favorite stories were M.R. James' "Casting the Runes" and E. Nesbit's "Man-Size in Marble," although the latter was a bit sad -- I liked her newlyweds so much that I really wanted them to have a happy ending. I could've read a ghost-free novel about them writing and painting and studying folklore...
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