The Haunted Looking Glass

Ghost stories chosen and illustrated by Edward Gorey

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"

Reviews

This delightfully eerie anthology...[is] a great entry into the warped sensibility that animated Gorey's twisted genius.
— Kirkus Reviews

[Gorey's] cult of devotees numbers in the millions. . . .
— Salon

Also see:

Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories Edited by Randall Jarrell This wonderful anthology, with its celebrated introductory essay, enlarges and deepens our perception of the storyteller's art and its central place in the world of our feelings.

The Colour Out of Space Edited by D. Thin This new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror.

Fancies and Goodnights By John Collier Introduction by Ray Bradbury "Here is a world of moonshine and madness, of suburbia invaded by fiends and angels, of magic spells, grotesque melodrama and lunatic farce, surprising, ludicrous, terrifying." —The New York Times

The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells Illustrations by Edward Gorey H. G. Wells’s spellbinding account of an invasion from outer space is the first and still the best of its genre.

Men and Gods By Rex Warner Illustrations by Edward Gorey Edward Gorey's drawings complement this modern retelling of some of the most beloved myths of ancient Greece. Men and Gods is wonderful introduction to these thrilling tales for the uninitiated and the perfect opportunity to get reacquainted with them.

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