| This eerie anthology covers the spectral spectrum with
snippets of ghostlore from Gilgamesh to Ghostbusters. Ballads, poems, plays,
Scandinavian epics, the Bible, contemporary writersthis is an absolute
gold-mine of excerpts about ghosts arranged under slightly arbitrary categories like
"Guilt and Reparation," "Love," "Vanishings,"
Deadstown," and "Things that go Bump." Something for everyone: bits from
deservedly vanished Gothic novels; poetry from Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Christina
Rossetti, The Book of the Dead, Hans Christian Anderson, Maori myths, eyewitness
accounts of hauntingsI cant begin to give you an idea of the variety. The
first taste is free
Youll soon find yourself obsessively digging up the
originals. |
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