{"product_id":"great-ghost-stories-9780786713639","title":"Great Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeaturing eerily atmospheric modern tales of foreboding and unease by such contemporary authors as Garry Kilworth  Brian Lumley  Ramsey Campbell  Tony Richards  and R. Chetwynd-Hayes  as well as disquieting classic ghost stories by literary giants like Ambrose Bierce  Washington Irving  Sir Walter Scott  F. Marion Crawford  and J. Sheridan Le Fanu  this anthology of highly original and often long-obscure works by twenty-five noteworthy masters of the macabre is guaranteed to raise more than a shiver. Gleaned from the renowned Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series  which was edited from 1972 to 1984 by prolific horror fiction writer and erudite anthologist R. Chetwynd-Hayes  these tales reflect the enduring fascination in our literary tradition with phantoms  specters  ghouls  and wraiths. Theres a Fetch  tooin Tina Raths intricately plotted tale of a violent husband  a shrinking wife  a scheming woman  and a Doppleganger. Behind Guy de Maupassants simply titled \"An Apparition\" lurks a tale that Chetwynd-Hayes places among the top ten ghost stories ever written. From Daniel Defoes entertaining eighteenth-century period piece to the subtle slice of contemporary ghostly life from Stephen King  solace in these remarkable  chilling fictions comes only at the feet of very dark angels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932251979829,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786713631","price":64.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786713639.jpg?v=1794222266","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/great-ghost-stories-9780786713639","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}