A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted--and haunting--Ghost tales.
He has twice received the Edgar Award, for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and The Lineup: The Wo.
He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books.
Including such classics as "The Monkey\'s Paw" and "The Open Window" and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore Also Featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore About the Author: Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.
Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these Stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight.
Some of these Stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in Book form.
Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics.
Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E.
P.
Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H.
L.
These spectral Stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M.
Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon.
The Ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page.
Includes eerie vintage Ghost illustrations.
A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted--and haunting--Ghost tales
