Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories | |
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Author(s) | Roald Dahl |
Country | United Kingdom |
Genre(s) | Supernatural fiction |
Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1983 |
Media type | hardback |
ISBN | 0-224-02149-4 |
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories is a 1983 collection of Ghost stories selected by Roald Dahl.[1]
Dahl read 749 supernatural tales from an array of ghost storytellers at the British Museum Library before selecting 14 that comprise this anthology.[2] In the book Dahl writes; "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story".[3]