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Classic Ghost Stories
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O. Henry,Francis Marion Crawford,Rudyard Kipling,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,E. F. Benson,Montague Rhodes James,Saki,Vincent O'Sullivan,P C Wren |
Judge's house / Bram Stoker --
Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford --
Narrative of the Ghost of a hand / J. Sheridan Le Fanu --
To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens --
Tell-tale heart … |
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Monstrum
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Francis Marion Crawford,Charles Loring Jackson,R. Murray Gilchrist,E. F. Benson |
20 stories of monstrous creatures, from basilisks, to sirens, to the wendigo. |
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The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories
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Francis Marion Crawford,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Algernon Blackwood,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,E. F. Benson,Jan Neruda,F. G. Loring,Victor Roman,Dr. Franz Hartmann,Stenbock, Stanislaus Eric Count |
An anthology of thirteen vampire stories originally published between 1871 and 1925 and written by various authors. |
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Great humorous stories
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Harry Secombe,Bret Harte,Barry Pain,Seán O'Faoláin,Basil Boothroyd,Iris Murdoch,P. G. Wodehouse,Geoffrey Willans,H. F. Ellis,George S. Kaufman,David Niven,Nathaniel Gubbins,Douglas Sutherland,Phyllis Eleanor Bentley,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy Parker,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,John Verney,O. Henry,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Max Apple,John Wyndham,Burdette, Robert J.,Rudyard Kipling,Frederic Raphael,Douglas Adams,Peter Ustinov,Arnold Bennett,Gerald Malcolm Durrell,James Herriot,Mole, John,William Somerset Maugham,David Nobbs,Groucho Marx,Keith Waterhouse,Alasdair Gray,Bob Larbey,Ronald Searle,Rob Buckman,Sue Townsend,Paul Theroux,George Grossmith,Auberon Waugh,Arthur Marshall,Stephen Leacock,Ring Lardner,E. F. Benson,Neil Boyd,Fran Lebowitz,C. Northcote Parkinson,Saki,Weedon Grossmith,Giovannino Guareschi,Robert Robinson,Nancy Mitford,Joyce Grenfell,Art Buchwald,Damon Runyon,E. M. Delafield,A. C. Games,Jean Davis,Patrick Campbell |
RONNIE CORBETT: *Introduction*
P.G. WODEHOUSE: *'The Voice from the Past'*
RING LARDNER: *Mr and Mrs Fix-It*
H.F. ELLIS: *Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott* (from *The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA*)
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Skating Stories
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E. F. Benson,B. A. Thurber |
Best known for his Mapp and Lucia series, Edward Frederic Benson was an enthusiastic figure skater as well as a prolific writer. It’s no surprise that many of his stories featured skating. The best a… |
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The collected ghost stories of E.F. Benson
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E. F. Benson |
A collection of horror stories - not only ghosts - by one of the early masters of the genre. Most are set in southern England, but there are stories also set in Scotland, the Alps and Egypt. |
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Mapp and Lucia (Make Way for Lucia, Part 4)
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E. F. Benson |
Meet Mapp and Luciatwo of the most unpleasant, disgraceful women you're ever likely to encounter, in E.F. Benson's carefully observed tale of 1930s village life and social ranking Emmeline Lucas (kno… |
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David Blaize
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E. F. Benson |
David Blaize is E. F. Benson's delightfully nostalgic novel of English public school life. Benson follows young David Blaize from his time at preparatory school to his entry to the sixth form at Marc… |
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Classic Ghost Stories
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,W. W. Jacobs,Joseph Conrad,Ambrose Bierce,Francis Marion Crawford,Rudyard Kipling,Robert Louis Stevenson,Benjamin Disraeli,Edgar Allan Poe,Bill Bowers,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Mary E. Wilkins,E. F. Benson,Rebecca Harding Davis,Montague Rhodes James,Louisa Baldwin,W.F. Harvey |
Teig O'Kane and the corpse --
The ghost of fear / H.G. Wells --
The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford --
Canon Alberic's scrap-book / M.R. James --
A true story / Benjamin Disraeli --
The pha… |
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