Favourite ghost story writers and stories?

[Umney]

M.R. James (be born, be born)
Far too hard to pick any one favorite – though I’ve always been partial to Cannon Alberic’s Scrap-book.

Quote Originally Posted by Evans

Quote Originally Posted by Julian Karswell Quote Originally Posted by Evans Did Wordsworth ever get round to doing a Wakefield collection? I seem to recall there being some talk of it. I doubt they would do it because of the royalties business but I wish some widescale publisher would reprint A N L Munby's Alabaster Hand collection. I can let you have a gratis copy of the Tandem paperback edition when I send you the other book. I have a spare. It's scruffy but perfectly serviceable. As you probably know, Munby wrote three of the tales whilst in a POW camp during WW2. The editor of the prison camp magazine ['Touchstone'] was an Edward Viney. I have a bound collection of Touchstone featuring all three of the Munby tales (two are illustrated) that has Viney's bookplate and personal inscription in the front i.e. it was his own file copy. About 200 copies of each edition of Touchstone were produced. It's quite rare. One of the issues features a short story involving the sexual escapades of the narrator. It's title? 'A Warning To The Curious'....... Thank you very much, that's very kind of you. I would love a copy. I did know the condition in which some of Munby's stories were written though I hadn't heard anything much else about the contents of the magazine. Recently while sharking about on AbeBooks it amused me to learn how its still much easier to get hold of the 1949 edition of The Alabaster Hand than either of the two Ash-Tree printings. Incidentally did the cheque I sent you for Vittorini arrive ok? I only ask because the postal unpleasantness seems to have stopped a few of my letters bound north of the Thames from reaching their destinations this month.

No, I don't think it has, but I'll need to check.

My post has been appalling of late. Is this really 2009 or have I missed a millenium and it's actually 1009? Things sent or received from overseas are fairly reliable but post within the UK is diabolical.

[Evans]

Quote Originally Posted by Julian Karswell

Quote Originally Posted by Evans Quote Originally Posted by Julian Karswell Quote Originally Posted by Evans Did Wordsworth ever get round to doing a Wakefield collection? I seem to recall there being some talk of it. I doubt they would do it because of the royalties business but I wish some widescale publisher would reprint A N L Munby's Alabaster Hand collection. I can let you have a gratis copy of the Tandem paperback edition when I send you the other book. I have a spare. It's scruffy but perfectly serviceable. As you probably know, Munby wrote three of the tales whilst in a POW camp during WW2. The editor of the prison camp magazine ['Touchstone'] was an Edward Viney. I have a bound collection of Touchstone featuring all three of the Munby tales (two are illustrated) that has Viney's bookplate and personal inscription in the front i.e. it was his own file copy. About 200 copies of each edition of Touchstone were produced. It's quite rare. One of the issues features a short story involving the sexual escapades of the narrator. It's title? 'A Warning To The Curious'....... Thank you very much, that's very kind of you. I would love a copy. I did know the condition in which some of Munby's stories were written though I hadn't heard anything much else about the contents of the magazine. Recently while sharking about on AbeBooks it amused me to learn how its still much easier to get hold of the 1949 edition of The Alabaster Hand than either of the two Ash-Tree printings. Incidentally did the cheque I sent you for Vittorini arrive ok? I only ask because the postal unpleasantness seems to have stopped a few of my letters bound north of the Thames from reaching their destinations this month. No, I don't think it has, but I'll need to check. My post has been appalling of late. Is this really 2009 or have I missed a millenium and it's actually 1009? Things sent or received from overseas are fairly reliable but post within the UK is diabolical.

Ehh if it doesn't come soon give me a kick and I'll have the bank cancel it and find a way to Paypal you the money.

[Russell Nash]

"The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship", Gabriel Garcia Márquez

"Miriam", Truman Capote

"The Hollow of the Three Hills", Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Vision of Charles XI", Prosper Merimée

[Dark Deceiver]

Mine would probably be :-

'An Episode of Cathedral History' - M.R.James

'Twilight Play' - August Derleth

'Ringing The Changes' - Robert Aickman

'There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding' - Russell Kirk

[G. S. Carnivals]

Three personal favorites are The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber, and "The Scream: From 1800 to the Present" by Thomas Ligotti.

I prefer the film 'The Innocents' to the story 'Turn Of The Screw' because it's such a brilliant piece of cinema.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

I couldn't think of an appropriate thread so I just went by genre.

Just found in the shops this week, Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Face In The Glass And Other Gothic Tales. Cover art is quite similar to the recent Aickman reprints but published by British Library. 14 tales.
Seems to be another once famous novelist who written some ghost stories occasionally.

[teguififthzeal]

Sheridan Le Fanu grows on me the older I get.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Always found Leonaur to be an interesting publisher because their ghost story collections are enormous and given how comprehensive they are it's odd I don't see them mentioned more.

Two books that I haven't heard of any other publisher doing.
- Mukerji's Ghosts, a collection of Indian folk tales.
- Unseen Hand, a collection of stories wholly devoted to unidentified authors.