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Cinema audiences all over the world enjoy a good ghost story, and for over a half a century stories by the famous writers of supernatural fiction have been adapted for the screen. "Classics of the Supernatural" brings together the best of these chilling, inspirational tales. Collected here for... read more
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“Don't look now," John said to his wife, "but there are a couple of old girls two tables away who are trying to hypnotise me.”
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One of the most curious ghost movies of which a print still exists is A PLACE OF ONE'S OWN filmed exactly fifty years ago in the final months of the Second World War.
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Prologue: Things That Go Bump on the Screen, by Peter Haining
Hallowe'en's Child, by James Herbert
Night Sequence, by J. B. Priestley
Sir Tristram Goes West, by Eric Keown
A Smoky Lady in Knickers, by Thorne Smith
Samhain, by Dorothy MacArdle
The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy, by Gerald Kersh
Casting the Runes, by M. R. James
The Bus, by Shirley Jackson
The Trespassers, by Nigel Kneale
Lucy Comes to Stay, by Robert Bloch
Don't Look Now, by Daphne du Maurier
Harlequin, by John Carpenter
Halley's Passing, by Michael McDowell
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Haining (Editor) - Also wrote Prologue: Things That Go Bump on theScreen
Other Contributors:
- James Herbert (Contributor) - Hallowe'en's Child (short story)
- J. B. Priestley (Contributor) - Night Sequence (short story)
- Eric Keown (Contributor) - Sir Tristram Goes West (short story)
- Thorne Smith (Contributor) - A Smoky Lady in Knickers (short story)
- Dorothy MacArdle (Contributor) - Samhain (short story)
- Gerald Kersh (Contributor) - The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy (short story)
- M. R. James (Contributor) - Casting the Runes (short story)
- Shirley Jackson (Contributor) - The Bus (short story)
- Nigel Kneale (Contributor) - The Trespassers (short story)
- Robert Bloch (Contributor) - Lucy Comes to Stay (short story)
- Daphne du Maurier (Contributor) - Don't Look Now (short story)
- John Carpenter (Contributor) - Harlequin (short story)
- Michael McDowell (Contributor) - Halley's Passing (short story)
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