Spooky Book of the Day: October 24

Who doesn’t love Roald Dahl?  Well apparently he was as into the spooky stuff as we are.  He read over 700 stories in order to pick the spookiest 14 featured in this book!

ROALD DAHL’S BOOK OF GHOST STORIES

From the Publisher:

Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? Of the many permutations of the macabre or bizarre, Dahl was always especially fascinated by the classic ghost story. As he relates in the erudite introduction to this volume, he read some 749 supernatural tales at the British Museum Library before selecting the 14 that comprise this anthology. “Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story,” Dahl writes. “It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts.” For this superbly disquieting collection, Dahl offers favorite tales by such masterful storytellers as E. F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Rosemary Timperley, and Edith Wharton.

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