Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories

Rating:
Summary: Dark Company -- Required reading for the horror enthusiast
Review: This horror anthology's subtitle, "The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories", says it all. The serious student of the horror genre will already have read most, if not all, of the selections in this book. The beauty of this anthology is having ALL your favorites between two covers of one thin book. This is a great "carry on" for travelers. This book includes the true classics (e.g. Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher", Henry James's "The Jolly Corner") as well as the truly hair-raising (e.g. Oliver Onions's "The Beckoning Fair One"). The only glaring omissions were stories by the great female horror writers of the Nineteenth Century such as Margaret Oliphant and Edith Wharton.

Rating:
Summary: Dark Company -- Required reading for the horror enthusiast
Review: This horror anthology's subtitle, "The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories", says it all. The serious student of the horror genre will already have read most, if not all, of the selections in this book. The beauty of this anthology is having ALL your favorites between two covers of one thin book. This is a great "carry on" for travelers. This book includes the true classics (e.g. Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher", Henry James's "The Jolly Corner") as well as the truly hair-raising (e.g. Oliver Onions's "The Beckoning Fair One"). The only glaring omissions were stories by the great female horror writers of the Nineteenth Century such as Margaret Oliphant and Edith Wharton.