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The Random House book of ghost stories

A collection of seventeen ghost stories by authors including Eleanor Farjeon, Joan Aiken, Walter R. Brooks, and Leon Garfield.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hill, Susan, 1942-, Barrett, Angela (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, 1991.
Edition:	1st Random House ed.
Subjects:	Ghost stories > Juvenile Ghosts > Juvenile fiction. Short stories > Juvenile.
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Summary:	A collection of seventeen ghost stories by authors including Eleanor Farjeon, Joan Aiken, Walter R. Brooks, and Leon Garfield.
Item Description:	"Originally published in great Britain as The Walker Book of ghost stories by Walker Books Ltd., London, in 1990"--T.P. verso.
Physical Description:	222 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0679812342 : 0679912347 (lib. bdg.) :
Author Notes:	Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, United Kingdom on February 5, 1942. She received a degree in English from King's College in London in 1963. Her first book, The Enclosure, was published during her first year at university. She worked as a freelance journalist between 1963 and 1968 and has been a monthly columnist for the Daily Telegraph since 1977. She founded her own publishing company, Long Barn Books, in 1996 and publishes a literary magazine called Books and Company. She has written works of fiction and non-fiction as well as children's books. She also edits short story compilations. Her works include Gentleman and Ladies, A Change for the Better, The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror, and the Simon Serrailler Crime Novel series. She has won numerous awards including a Somerset Maugham Award for I'm the King of the Castle, the Whitbread Novel Award for The Bird of Night, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross, and the Smarties Prize for Can It Be True? (Bowker Author Biography)