Reading of the month:
"Ghost Stories" by Roald Dahl
"Ghost Stories" by Roald Dahl
"Chris ran ahead of me. She looked up as if at someone beside her. For a brief, dreadful second, I saw a shadow on the pavement alongside her own - a long, thin shadow, like a boy's shadow. "
"Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme
connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? Of the many permutations of
the macabre or bizarre, Dahl was always especially fascinated by the
classic ghost story. As he realtes in the erudite introduction to this
volume, he read some 749 supernatural tales at the British Museum
Library before selecting the 14 that comprise this anthology.
"Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story," Dahl
writes. "It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts." For
this superbly disquieting collection, Dahl offers favorite tales by such
masterful storytellers as E. F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rosemary
Timperley, and Edith Wharton."
I choosed this book because who doesn't like some spooky stories now and then? I do, and since november is usually a very grey month, I thought it is time to indulge myself in some of Roal Dahl's favourite ghost stories. Before I bought the book, I read some book reviews and some say, the stories aren't scary at all. It might be so, but I better find out myself...
Happy reading!
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