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In Ghostly Company ISBN: 978--184022-643-0 Author : Amyas Northcote Total Pages: 160 Price: £2.99
Introduction by David Stuart Davies
‘A grey cloud formed on the summit of the altar, diminishing, thickening and turning into a Shape, a shape of evil and fear. The silent group by the fire once more broke forth into wild gesticulations and cries, Stella prostrated herself, the Form on the altar grew clearer and with a cry of horror Mr Fowke turned away and rushed madly across the moor’.
Amyas Northcote’s In Ghostly Company is a rare and splendid collection of strange and disturbing tales from the golden age of ghost stories. His style is akin to that of the master of the genre M.R. James: it is measured and insidiously suggestive, producing unnerving chills rather than shocks and gasps. Northcote’s tales make the reader unsettled and uneasy. This is partly due to the fact that the hauntings or strange occurrences take place in natural or mundane surroundings – surroundings familiar to the reader but never before thought of as unusual or threatening. Long out of print, this book remains an enthralling and chilling read.
Michael Gove M.P. writes in 'The Times':
'Always on the search for ways of making the recession bearable, can I recommend the books published in the Wordsworth Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series? All our greatest ghost stories and tales of the uncanny are there, including macabre offerings from Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Dennis Wheatley. They're not quite as terrifying as the state of the economy, but they are all superbly written and at £2.99 each they offer some qualitative easing of our economic pain.'
David Hopkins MA PhD, Professor ofEnglish Literature at the University ofBristol says of our Classics series 'These books are an extremely valuable resource for teachers of literature from the Sixth Form level upwards. Wordsworth Classics print many texts which are not otherwise available. I make particular use in my own teaching of their excellent reprints of 'classic' translations from Greek and Roman authors...Wordsworth are now issuing an excellent Shakespeare series, edited by Professor Cedric Watts of Sussex University, which I shall be recommending on a regular basis.The Wordsworth volumes are genuinely affordable by students, in a way that few series of undergraduate books now are'.
