Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983) is a collection of ghost stories chosen by Roald Dahl.[1]

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
First edition (US)
AuthorRoald Dahl (editor)
CountryUnited Kingdom
GenreSupernatural fiction
PublisherJonathan Cape (UK)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US)
Publication date
Oct 1983
Media typePaperback
ISBN0-224-02149-4

Dahl read 749 supernatural tales from an array of writers at the British Museum before choosing 14 that he considered the best.[2] In the book Dahl writes; "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story".[3] He initially did this while working to develop an American television programme that would feature dramatisations of these stories. He wrote a pilot based on E. F. Benson's "The Hanging of Alfred Wadham", that was then filmed, but when producers saw the film they were concerned that it would offend American Catholics, due to the story being about the stipulations of confession. As a result the show was cancelled, and years later Dahl decided to use his research to make a book.

Contents

References
  1. Michael Ashley, William Contento The supernatural index: a listing of fantasy, supernatural, occult, weird, and horror anthologies Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995
  2. "Macmillan: Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories". Macmillan. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  3. Lisa Hefner Heitz Haunted Kansas: ghost stories and other eerie tales p.178. University Press of Kansas, 1997
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