SHUDDERS IN PLENTY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21904, 3 October 1936, Page 17

SHUDDERS IN PLENTY

A Century of Ghost Stories. Hutchinson and Co. 1013 tip. (/6.) Through Whltcombe and Tombs., ' ) ' ■ Whining winds, noises created by no human agency, screams .-curdling the blood of most valiant hnen;' and death in horrifying forms. These are some of th© conventional ingredients of the good ghost tale. And' although it is unpleasant to be'frightened, most people who read have an appetite for this kind of story,f and even those'-who* do not readmuch" will listen eagerly to any recital; plausibly authentic, of unseasonable . intrusions :6f vapoury inhabitants; of another world into the, lives of people abiding cheerfully enough one. . t - ,1 i- ■ , &'i < . Whatever the explanation may'does not matter, but the fact is most pebple have ,a taate f |dr these' ghostly horrors. .This ho&.k tor that reason, raakea general' appeal* IJere a!re 43 stories by 3T, authors, and the names alone arewhrrahty enough of Quality. Of Hying writers .there, are.’Walter de l li ;2&are, * Oliver Onions, ' Algernon 'Blackwood, ,■ Sand' Shane Leslie; pf the dead:no recommendation is heededfor Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Ambrose Bieilce,

Sir Walter Scott, and Qjckens. *TH« - . real cause for. woider is iStat'so great a book cart be produced lor so smaH and they contain roarer of th> bigbr "-. est. pfifa ISHJf.-,--h* this the 1 Isfteslfc *roiume n^arkable;ser3HßS„ v ;>, .fivpiJu