An edition of The Ghost's companion: a haunting anthology (1975)

The Ghost's Companion

A Haunting Anthology

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An edition of The Ghost's companion: a haunting anthology (1975)

The Ghost's Companion

A Haunting Anthology

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This collection brings together famous authors - not necessarily those specialising in the supernatural and the macabre - who have actually come face to face with a phantom and subsequently turned their experience into a story.

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Taplinger
Language
English

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Subjects
American Ghost stories, English Ghost stories, Ghost stories, Fiction, ghost

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Cover of: The Ghosts's Companion - Stories Of The Supernatural
The Ghosts's Companion - Stories Of The Supernatural
Aug 28, 1978, Puffin / Penguin Books
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Cover of: The Ghost's companion
The Ghost's companion: a haunting anthology
1976, Taplinger Pub. Co.
in English
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Cover of: The Ghost's Companion
The Ghost's Companion: A Haunting Anthology
1976, Taplinger
Hardcover in English
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Cover of: The Ghost's companion
The Ghost's companion: stories of personal encounters with the supernatural
1975, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
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Table of Contents

Introduction, by Peter Haining. 9
A School Story, M. R. James. 15
The Red Lodge, by H. R. Wakefield. 25
The Furnished Room, O. Henry. 41
A Haunted Island, by Algernon Blackwood. 50
My Own True Ghost Story, by Rudyard Kipling. 70
The Hands of the Karma, by Lafcadio Hearn. 80
The Monstrance, by Arthur Machen. 87
Escort, by Daphne du Maurier. 94
South Sea Bubble, by Hammond Innes. 114
Hallowe'en for Mr Faulkner, by August Derleth. 123
The Ghost, by Richard Hughes. 135
The Case of the Red-Headed Women, by Dennis Wheatley. 140
Smoke Ghost, by Fritz Leiber. 154
Aunt Jezebel's House, by Joan Aiken. 174
Fever Dream, by Ray Bradbury. 183

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Dewey Decimal Class
823'.0872

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Hardcover

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Open Library
OL25844207M
Internet Archive
ghostscompaniona00hain
ISBN 10
0800832280
ISBN 13
9780800832285
LCCN
75030227
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
302089
Library Thing
1781305
Goodreads
2361355

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August 26, 2022 Edited by M C W Added description from Introduction
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March 10, 2021 Edited by Sarah Breau Added LCCN, added Library Thing, added Goodreads, added dewey
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