Not everything that goes bump in the night brings gifts ...As the nights draw in,the veil between worlds thins,and all sorts of ghosts and ghouls come tumbling in. In the shadows,under the bed,in wind-whipped snowy landscapes and in rooms lit by guttering candles,the dead of winter are waiting for us...and their hearts are cold as ice.From the mysterious occupant of an ancient tomb to the Christmas visitor who is troubled by violent dreams,these are ten ghost stories from the masters of the genre that will chill your blood and haunt your dreams through the darkest months of the year.With stories from Lennox Robinson,M. Burrage,Ruth Rendell,E.F. Benson,Arthur Conan Doyle,H. Russell Wakefield,M.R. James,Margaret Irwin,Algernon Blackwood and W.W. Jacobs
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Publisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781800817753Number of pages: 192Weight: 160 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mmEdition: Main
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With Cecily Gayford in charge,we are on safe groundLooking forward to Christmas (The Vintage Murder series) is a fine way to start it. It's a crackerPraise for Vintage Murder seriesHas everything you might want...take this little book to the beach (and) relax in the sun while reading of battered corpsesAn excellent collection of short stories by ten top-class writersPerfect for a quick fix of golden-age crime...this collection of short winter chills is well worth reading by candlelight before turning in on Christmas EveShort,clever and puzzling murder tales test the brains of the most avid crime reader...delectableAn impressive tome by some great names...there isn't actually a bum note in the entire collection,not a single one you could skip through and not miss it - which is quite some feat. To paraphrase Nick Cook's famous Crimewatch sign off,just don't have nightmares after reading it.
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