Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories

(Hardback)

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Spirits, ghosts and ghouls dance their macabre fortunes in the pages of this thrilling new book. From cemeteries and abandoned mansions, battered tenement buildings and ice-cold chambers to the desert wastelands of Arabia, this new collection gathers stories from open submissions and surrounds them with the ghastly emanations of H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia Edwards and the frightful tales of Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell and Elizabeth Gaskell.

The gorgeous, deluxe edition Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Author Bio

Dr. Ahmed Al-Rawi is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research expertise is related to the study offolklore,popular culture, and communication with emphasis on the Middle East. Al-Rawi has published several academic studies that traced the historical origins of mythical creatures in Arabia like the ghoul, rukh, and dragon often using cross-cultural literary comparisons. Created and developed at Flame Tree Publishing, independent publisher and creator of fine books, journals, notebooks and art calendars, with a focus on myths, gothic fantasy and great works.