A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight

A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight

by PhilippaPearce (Editor)

Synopsis

For this spine-tingling new collection, Philippa Pearce, herself an award-winning children's writer, has brought together 40 ghost stories to captivate children and adults alike. Beginning with M. R. James's `A School Story', and including `The Ghostly Goat of Glaramar' and `The House that Lacked a Bogle', this anthology presents tales by outstanding children's authors: amongst them Eleanor Farjeon, Alison Uttley, Jan Mark, Penelope Lively, Leon Garfield, and Tim Wynne-Jones.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 03 Oct 1996

ISBN 10: 0192880144
ISBN 13: 9780192880147

Author Bio

About the Editor:
Philippa Pearce is the author of numerous influential children's books--several of which have been broadcast on television and radio. Her best-known include Tom's Midnight Garden (which won the Carnegie Medal in 1958), Minnow in the Say, The Shadow Cage and other Tales of the Supernatural and Who's Afraid?.