What do You think about The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories (2008)?
Good collection of ghost stories. My favourites were:The Story of Salome - Amelia B. Edwards - loved the setting of Venice, atmospheric and creepyThe Vacant Lot - Mary E. Wilkins - disturbing story, not about a haunted house but a haunted empty lot next to a family's new homeThe Violet Car - E. Nesbit - unusual ghost story featuring a very scary car The Eyes - Edith Wharton - chilling tale about a strange hauntingThe Haunted Saucepan - Margery Lawrence - the creepiest story in the collectionThe Book - Margaret Irwin - more a 'horror' story than a 'ghost' one, scaryThe Mistress in Black - Rosemary Timperley - great little story about a haunted school.Who's Been Sitting in My Car? - Antonia Fraser - like 'The Book' this one was more a horror story than a 'ghost' one, and again featuring one very scary car.
—Georgie
Mixed bunch of ghost stories written by women. The major themes were revenge and betrayal. The only good one I remember was the husband who went to bed while waiting for his wife to come home from a trip to see her relatives. He fell asleep but then woke to someone very cold getting into bed with him….It was then that he heard his wife getting out of her car in the driveway.
—Christopher Bashforth
I have to read this for women's literature. So far I am not impressed :(Update/Review:Overall not a terrible collection of short stories. Some of them were pretty bad ghost stories, some of them were simply... unagreeably written, and some of them had some neat ideas. I didn't read all of them, thankfully, but I can never be overly upset nor overly impressed by short stories. Their brevity is a medium of neutrality. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they're suckers for that genre, like the kids in that Disney movie, Under Wraps. Ah to be... 10? jesus that movie's old.
—Doug
