An edition of The Twilight Book (1981)

The Twilight Book

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An edition of The Twilight Book (1981)

The Twilight Book

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Here is a splendid collection of ghost stories, and a truly international gathering of ghosts: they come from India, medieval France, Denmark (a king, no less), Turkey, an Asian island; there’s an alarming accident in Germany, an Aztec resur­rection, an Anglo-Saxon visitation, a Roman invasion of an unexpected kind, a Spanish tragedy, and a lost child in the English countryside.

Giles Gordon shows us the battlements of Elsinore; Janice Elliott’s lovers cross the centuries in passionate reincarnation. Alex Hamilton hears a dialogue between a father in a mental home and his young son with unsafe friends; Sarah Lawson’s sad ghost is a Spanish sailor from the Armada, cast up on a Scottish island. And Fred Urquhart brings back to life in our own day, for a fitting revenge, a boy sold into slavery on the Children’s Crusade.

Frank Morley provides a grimmer haunt­ing, along Hadrian’s Wall, and James Hamilton-Paterson is truly frightening about possession in the South Seas. And there’s black humour in Steve Wilson’s tale of scatological Aunt Alice and a revenge which involves an inflatable sex-prop.

Ghosts ancient and modern patrol the twilight of the pages; turn on the light, and then turn on the light.

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Language
English
Pages
204

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Cover of: The Twilight Book
The Twilight Book
1981, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Twilight book
The Twilight book: a new collection of ghost stories
1981, Gollancz
in English

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Table of Contents

A Helping Hand, by Alex Hamilton
Trystings, by Janice Elliott
My Breath Is Inside You, by Steve Wilson
Hamlet: The Ghost’s Story, by Giles Gordon
Aunt Jude, by Jay Gilbert
Two of You, by James Hamilton-Patterson
The Country of the Gull, by Dominic Cooper
The Avatar, by Salman Rushdie
Spaniard’s Rock, by Sarah Lawson
The Saracen’s Stick, by Fred Urquhart
Zane Forsyth’s Resurrection Affair, by Roger F. Dunkley
The Cucullati, by Frank Morley

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR1309.G5

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
183 p.
Number of pages
204
Dimensions
20 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10643960M
ISBN 10
0575030216
ISBN 13
9780575030213
OCLC/WorldCat
8328588
Library Thing
5858920
Goodreads
193739

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June 17, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
February 18, 2020 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
November 26, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
October 21, 2010 Edited by Sarah Breau Moved table of contents from title and subtitle to table of contents, decapitalized title, changed author, added description, added to table of contents, added language, added OCLC, added pagination, added height
April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record.