Dread and delight : a century of children's ghost stories

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Dread and delight : a century of children's ghost stories

edited by Philippa Pearce

Oxford University Press, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references

Summary: Forty ghost stories from English-speaking countries, written in the twentieth century by such well-known authors as A.C. Benson, Eleanor Farjeon, Joan Aiken and Leon Garfield

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内容説明

This is a collection of 40 ghost stories written for children over the course of the present century. Compiled by the award-winning novelist Philippa Pearce, author of the classic children's book Tom's Midnight Garden , these stories will captivate adults and children alike. As a genre, children's ghost writing is a relative newcomer to the literary field. While children's literature has flourished for over 200 years, supernatural fiction for the young has come into its own only in the twentieth century. Dread and Delight charts its development from the writings of M. R. James and Walter de la Mare to renowned present-day authors including Jan Mark, Leon Garfield and Penelope Lively. There are two previously unpublished stories by Lucy Boston and Robert Westall, and a full introduction and lively notes on the authors. Drawn from all over the English-speaking world, including America, India, and the Caribbean as well as Great Britain, these stories succeed brilliantly in producing the pleasurable tingle of anticipation that children relish as much as adults. As Philippa Pearce writes in her introduction, `fear becomes awe and wonder...the delight is in the dread'. This book is intended for adult readers interested in children's literature, history of literature and supernatural; also young readers.

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M. R. James: A School Story. A. C. Benson: Out of the Sea. H. F. W. Tatham: Manfred's Three Wishes. William J Wintle: The Light in the Dormitory. Walter de la Mare: Miss Jemima. Arthur Machen: Johnny Double. Eleanor Farjeon: Elsie Piddock Skips on her Sleep. Lucy Boston: The Tiger-Skin Rug. William Pene du Bois: Elisabeth the Cow Ghost. Robert Bright: Georgie. David Severn: All in the Night's Work. Christopher Woodforde: Richard. Alison Uttley: The Wee Ghostie. Robert Arthur: The Haunted Trailer. Sorche Nic Leodhas: The House that Lacked a Bogle. Pamela Ropner: The January Queen. R. Chetwynd-Hayes: Brownie. Michael Kenyon: The Ghost of Top Wood. Dorothy Edwards: The Old White Ghost and the Old Grey Grandad. Margaret Mahy: Looking for a Ghost. Philippa Pearce: At the River-Gates. Ruth Park: Sombody lives in the Nobody House. J S Leatherbarrow: The Ghostly Goat of Glaramara. Joan Aiken: She was Afraid of Upstairs. Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Extinguished Lights. Jan Mark: Who's a Pretty Boy, Then?. Penelope Lively: Uninvited Ghosts. Farrukh Dhondy: The Bride. George Mackay Brown: Ivor. Vivien Alcock: Siren Song. Adidan Chambers: The Tower. Grace Hallworth: The Guitarist. Leon Garfield: A Grave Misunderstanding. Ruskin Bond: Ghost Trouble. Paul Yee: Spirits of the Railway. Barbara Griffiths: Many Happy Returns!. Robert Westall: The Beach. Susan Price: Across the Fields. Tim Wynne-Jones: The Clearing. John Gordon: The Burning Baby

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