A Book of Spooks and Spectres
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| Author | Ruth Manning-Sanders |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Robin Jacques |
| Cover Artist | Robin Jacques |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fairy Tales |
| Publisher | E. P. Dutton |
| Released | 1980 |
| Media Type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 128 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-525-27045-0 |
A Book of Spooks and Spectres is a 1980 anthology of 23 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979, by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
[edit] Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Old Tommy and the Spectre (England)
- 2. La-lee-lu (U.S.A.)
- 3. Football on a Lake (China)
- 4. The Spooks' Party (Russia)
- 5. Spooks a-hunting (Tyrol)
- 6. Yi Chang and the Spectres (Korea)
- 7. Dilly-dilly-doh! (Iceland)
- 8. The Owl (Switzerland)
- 9. The Black Spectre (Italian Tyrol)
- 10. Rubizal and the Miller's Daughter (Bohemia)
- 11. The Spook and the Beer Barrel (Denmark)
- 12. Tummeldink (Schleswig-Holstein)
- 13. Tangletop (Germany)
- 14. The Spook and the Pigs (Bohemia)
- 15. The Spectre Wolf (U.S.A.)
- 16. The Inn of the Stone and Spectre (Germany)
- 17. The Little Old Man in the Tree (Yugoslavia)
- 18. Goralasi and the Spectres (Australia)
- 19. The Lake (Estonia)
- 20. Strange Visitors (Korea)
- 21. The Dance of the Spectres (Savoy)
- 22. Heaven Forbid! (Denmark)
- 23. Ha! ha! ha! (Germany)
Note: On the contents page, it is stated: For permission to retell Goralasi and the Spectres the author wishes to thank Messrs Erich Röth - Verlag, Kassel.
