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<b>Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. </b><br/><br/>From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms: the world of everyday and the world of supernatural. It was a time and place where men could be brought down by karmic forces or lured into deadly danger by ghostly apparitions, and where the land held sorrowful secrets or stories that long-awaited an opportunity to reveal them and seek reparation.<br/><br/><i>The Snow Ghost and Other Tales </i>brings together some of the best and scariest tales that endured across centuries of folk lore in one new beautiful hardback collection. Finally commited to writing during the turn of the twenieth cenutry by a unique set of folklorists, the ghost stories presented in this new anthology will transport readers to a time of magic and mystery, and let them relish in the spine-tingling traditions of Japanese culture largely lost now to modernity.

These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced. Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices. Suffused with tension and longing, they form a window onto a remarkable era of writing. Contains: 'The Cut Finger' by Frances Bellerby, 'Summer Night' by Elizabeth Bowen, 'The Birds' by Daphne du Maurier, 'The Land Girl' by Diana Gardner, 'Listen to the Magnolias' by Stella Gibbons, 'Shocking Weather, Isn't It?' by Inez Holden, 'The First Party' by Attia Hosain, 'Three Miles Up' by Elizabeth Jane Howard, 'The Skylight' by Penelope Mortimer, 'The Thames Spread Out' by Elizabeth Taylor and 'Scorched Earth Policy' by Sylvia Townsend Warner

A gorgeous gift edition of festive stories from France, from the publishers of A SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS, A GERMAN CHRISTMAS and AN ITALIAN CHRISTMAS Joyeux noel! These festive stories welcome Christmas a la fran aise - delicious, chic and unexpected. Sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, oysters, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine- this collection of stories proves that the French have mastered Christmas. This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century author Irene Nemirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.

<b>Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. </b><br/><br/>From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms: the world of everyday and the world of supernatural. <i>The Snow Ghost and Other Tales </i>brings together some of the best and scariest tales that endured across centuries of folklore, transporting readers to a time of magic and mystery.<br/><br/><b>For readers of Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell and Shirley Jackson</b>

<b><i>Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales.<br/><br/></i></b>'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas' said Charles Dickens. From yuletide carols to scrumptious food to presents under the tree, from cold winter nights in Victorian London to countryside festivities by the fire, from the melancholies of the season to the injustices, our best writers have seen it all and written it down. A Vintage Christmas captures the very essence of what Christmas means to us and what real magic can be found, written by some of the world's finest authors, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope, Laurie Lee, E. Nesbit and Alice Munro.<br/><br/>Stories in A Vintage Christmas:<br/>'Carol-Barking' from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee<br/>'Obadiah Oak, Mrs Griffiths and the Carol Singers' by Louis de Bernieres<br/>'The Turkey Season' by Alice Munro<br/>'Christmas at Thompson Hall' by Anthony Trollope<br/>'Christmas Shopping' from The Green Road by Anne Enright<br/>'A Conscience Pudding' from The New Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit<br/>'Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons<br/>'There Never Was Such a Goose' from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<br/>'Let Nothing You Dismay' by Helen Simpson<br/>'Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor' by John Cheever<br/>'A Serious Talk' by Raymond Carver<br/>'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' by Arthur Conan Doyle<br/><br/>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.<br/><br/>Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.

The influence of the gothic and its atmosphere of gloom and decay have inspired classics of horror and the supernatural for more than two centuries. <i>The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales</i> collects twenty-five classic stories shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre. In addition to the world-famous title novel, about a "ghost" who terrorizes the personnel of the Paris Opera House, the book includes Horace Walpole's <i>The Castle of Otranto</i>, the book that launched the gothic novel craze, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E. T. A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and Vernon Lee.<br/> <br/><i>The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales</i> is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.

Once upon a time . . .<br/><br/> Fantasy and enchantment await you in this beautifully illustrated treasury which features the best-loved fairy and folk tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, The Arabian Nights, and other classic sources. Its thirty-five selections include:<br/> * Cinderella<br/> * Hansel and Gretel<br/> * The Seven Voyages of Sinbad<br/> * Little Red Riding-Hood<br/> * Beauty and the Beast<br/> * Jack and the Beanstalk<br/> * The Frog Prince<br/> * Sleeping Beauty<br/><br/> Each story is illustrated vividly in color by artists renowned as the greatest from the Golden Age of Illustration, among them Arthur Rackham, Harry Clarke, William Heath Robinson, Charles Robinson, Rene Bull, L. Leslie Brooke, Thomas Mackenzie, and Eleanor Vere Boyle.<br/><br/> Treat yourself to a collection of popular tales that have entertained readers young and old for centuries. A Treasury of Best-Loved Fairy is your entree to a world of the imaginative and marvelous.<br/><br/> A Treasury of Best Loved Fairy Tales is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions Classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.