Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesFrom rural England to colonial India, in murky haunted mansions and under modern electric lighting, these master storytellers some of the best writers in the English language unfold spinetinglers which pull back the veil of everyday life to reveal the nightmares which lurk just out of sight. They are lessons in ingenuity and surprise, sometimes building slowly to a chilling climax, sometimes springing horror on you from the utterly banal. And as you'd

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