Product Description

The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied by Gorey's inimitable illustrations.

ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, "The Empty House"
W.F. HARVEY, "August Heat"
CHARLES DICKENS, "The Signalman"
L.P. HARTLEY, "A Visitor from Down Under"
R.H. MALDEN, "The Thirteenth Tree"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Body-Snatcher"
E. NESBIT, "Man-Size in Marble"
BRAM STOKER, "The Judge's House"
TOM HOOD, "The Shadow of a Shade"
W.W. JACOBS, "The Monkey's Paw,"
WILKIE COLLINS, "The Dream Woman"
M.R. JAMES, "Casting the Runes"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159486 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-12
• Released on: 2001-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From Publishers Weekly
An elegant reprint anthology of 12 classic stories is The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen and Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Readers can trust that the late maven of the macabre has picked the most ghoulish works by the likes of Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, R.H. Malden and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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About the Author
EDWARD GOREY (1925-2000) wrote over 100 books (including such cult favorites as The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Unstrung Harp, and The Doubtful Guest) and provided illustrations for many other projects, including Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and the PBS program Mystery. His meticulously executed line drawings and his quirky and often morbid sense of humor have made his works instantly recognizable and widely loved, even while they remain almost impossible to classify by conventional definitions.

Customer Reviews

Not a Stellar Collection
I had high hope for this collection; loving Gorey and his bizarre sense of humor I expected him to find an odd collection of great stories. Unfortunately, they are mostly mediocre (to my mind), and with very few exceptions not chilling or startling at all.

There was one fantastic story, though: "August Heat" by W.F. Harvey. I'm grateful for this entire collection, for that one story. It is short, tight and incredible. Not a "ghost story", so to speak, but a chilling one none the less. I highly recommend it and was thrilled to find that others liked it enough to type it up online. I found several places, so look it up and read it--you'll thank me later.

The best part of the book, of course, was the full page illustration, incorporating the title and a bit of the story, before each selection. For a Gorey fan, that made it almost worth slogging through the not-so-good stories.

best of the best
How could Edward Gorey's favorite ghost stories *not* be fantastic? With his own illustrations, to boot. I'm thrilled I happened across it, because it's the best collection I've read. Every story is a little masterpiece (and every story required me to sleep with the lights on after I finished it). There isn't weak story in the collection, and if you like creepy stories, every one is a must-read.

Edward Gorey's favorite Ghost Stories
C'mon. Handpicked by Edward Gorey. Served up on a silver spoon.
What are you waiting for?