Antique Dust: Ghost Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Antique Dust: Ghost Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

â€˜Creepy . . . develops a sense of palpable evil . . . well worth the time of readers who prefer slyly civilized British ghost storiesâ€™ - Kirkus Reviews

â€˜Fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short fictionâ€™ - Publishers Weekly

â€˜Marvelous M. R. Jamesian-style ghost storiesâ€™ - Michael Dirda, Washington Post

â€˜Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead menâ€™s clocks, pipes and swords. Passing through my hands, they give off joy, loneliness, fear . . . I have known more evil in a set of false teeth than in any so-called haunted house in England.â€™

So speaks Geoff Ashden, a regular guy trying to make an honest living as an antique dealer, but who has an uncanny knack for finding cursed objects and haunted places: a sinister Georgian clock carved with obscene and Satanic designs, a hideous doll with deadly powers, a pair of old spectacles that let their wearer see a little too clearly, an ugly house with a terrifying secret, a church full of graffiti scrawled in decomposing human flesh. In this collection, award-winning childrenâ€™s author Robert Westall delivers a set of chilling tales for adults and proves himself, as Orrin Grey writes in the new introduction to this edition, â€˜an obvious successor to that godfather of the English ghost story, M.R. Jamesâ€Š.â€™
Country USA
Manufacturer Valancourt Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-03-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Valancourt Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-03-02
Format	Kindle eBook

Antique Dust: Ghost Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

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