![]() ![]() ![]() Ambrose Bierce's little shocker, "One Summer Night," is typical of this writer's bold delineation of brutality and callousness its grave-robbing scene, with the ghoulish enterprise illumined by fitful lightning flashes, is appropriately eerie. Whitehead's "Cassius" high-lights a fine example of the strange-beast theme. The malignant creature which attacks the terrified servant night after night in Henry S. The eleven other stories, however, produce shivers of other, widely varying kinds. Wakefield gives a distinctively modern twist. James, and I have included here his wonderfully titled, "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad," as well as "Ghost Hunt," which H. That type was, perhaps, written most effectively by M. It doesn't take a ghost story, necessarily fear has many forms, and the spectral tale has lost the monopoly it once enjoyed. ![]() They tell me - I have never had occasion to experiment - that "there is more than one way to skin a cat." I know, by reason of many delightfully quaking hours while equipped with slippers and easy chair, that there are a good many ways to induce shivery sensations in a reader. ![]()
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