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These are great. First off, this was a lot of fun to read in October. The anglophile in me now really really wants to go to Cornwall. It is a bunch of short ghost stories and horror folk tales written by various authors and interspersed with little mini blurbs of Cornish superstition and fold legends. All super dark and creepy. My favorite was The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. I just love her in general, Rebecca Definitely being on my favorites list. This was the short story on which the Hitchcock...
Cracking short stories - some a little more creepy than others.The collection contains The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier - the story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds.A brilliant collection to dip in and out of.
I really liked it. The last story was a gem of the horror genre.
PLACEHOLDER REVIEW"Mrs. Lunt" by Hugh Walpole - an author tells of his Christmas trip to meet Mr. Lunt (another author and a bit of a recluse) on the coast of Cornwall, at the latter's invitation. On arriving at the desolate, remote mansion he finds a nervous, pleading, pathetic man who seems to fear his wife, who died a year ago. The place itself seems haunted by the specter of a severe older woman who is only barely glimpsed - and eventually, Lunt confesses to his fear that his dead wife is at...
Surprisingly, I enjoyed this MUCH more than the book of Dickens ghost stories I read immediately before it. Some cracking stories here, the weakest being the final tale, which was written by the chap who compiled the collection.
