Description
| Product ID: | 9781847497574 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Thousand and One Ghosts |
| Authors: | Author: Alexandre Dumas, Andrew Brown |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic horror & ghost stories, Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Thousand and One Ghosts – here presented in its first and only translation into English – is a gloriously macabre work by the celebrated author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, which also touches on the serious political issue of capital punishment. Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that her severed head spoke to him even after her death. This prompts the guests at a dinner Dumas attends later that evening to exchange stories of death and the supernatural, ranging from accounts of the guillotine during the Terror to tales of vampires and fratricide in the Carpathians. |
| Imprint Name: | Alma Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-10-25 |