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This collection was a bit of a mixed bag for me. Some stories were really great and completely captured my attention while some were just plain boring. Despite that I did still really enjoy this collection! There’s some delightfully spooky stories in here and it’s definitely worth a read. It’s a perfect, quick read for this time of the year and I’m just a huge sucker for ghost stories, there’s something about them that I just adore!
This is the first in this series of twenty books to be edited by R.Chetwynd-Hayes, replacing Robert Aickman. As with the others it’s a bit of an up and down affair. Of the eleven stories here, I only ticked off four as being good. These are:-‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell (by Edith Wharton) – a recently ill woman manages to find a position as a housemaid in a rather strange household. A well written, atmospheric character study.‘The Sweeper’ (by Ex-Private X, which is a pseudonym for A.M.Burrage) – the...
Writing a really chilling ghost story is one of literature's greatest challenges. None of the stories in this anthology quite hit the nail on the head, but there are a few decent spooks in these pages. "The Sweeper", which I had read previously, is probably the pick for me, followed by "The Return of Imray", even though it isn't actually a ghost story, "Sally", "The Glove", "The Liberated Tiger", and "The Coat". A few of the others, especially "Keeping his Promise" and "The Four-Fifteen Express"...
By the time we’d reached the ninth book in this long-running series of ghost story anthologies, editor Robert Aickman had been replaced by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, and the number of stories in each volume had increased. Otherwise, it’s business as usual, with a varied mix of the good, the bad and the just plain ugly.Things don’t exactly begin with a bang in DEATH CANNOT WITHER, written by Judith Merril and Algis Budrys. This is subdued, thoughtful writing, moving in places but never scary. Edith Whart...
2009 bookcrossing review:I don't know why, but I don't think the cover does this book any favours. It's been putting me off reading it for ages. But I have read all the short stories in here over the last couple of days and really enjoyed them. Some are older than others, some relatively modern (the book was published in the 70s) but they have that wonderful polite English ghost story feel - great stuff.I liked some better than others to be honest. Found the Rudyard Kipling one not so interestin...
I'm here only to review the story The Return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling (Coz I cant find a separate edition for this story alone). It was pretty much like a typical Rudyard Kipling story, but this one had bit of mystery in it. Not a great story but it was entertaining.
