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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 realtes in the erudite introduction to this volume, he... read more

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My wise and venerable old friend Alfred Knopf, the American pubisher, had a half-brother called Edwin.

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  1. Roald Dahl (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: England
Publication Date: 1983
ISBN: 0224021494
Page Count: 240

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