Add this copy of Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories to cart. $9.02, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Add this copy of Casting the Runes: and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford to cart. $21.68, very good condition, Sold by Half Price Books Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Oxford University Press.
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Add this copy of Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories to cart. $23.50, very good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Oxford University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. AW4-A hardcover book SIGNED by Michael Chabon on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some labels on the back, some wrinkling on the edges and corners, scattered light rubbing, scratches, and scuffing, some scattered foxing on the opposite side, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and dents, wrinkling on the spine edges, foxing on the top page edges and some on a few inside pages, light discoloration and shelf wear. With a New Introduction by Michael Chabon. Reissued as an Oxford World's Classics hardback, 2002. 8.5"x5.75", 298 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. When we think of ghost stories, we tend to think of cub scouts cringing by a fire, s'mores at the ready, as some aging camp counselor tries to scare them witless with yet another tale from the crypt. But as Michael Chabon's marvelous introduction reminds us, the ghost story was once integral to the genre of the short story. Indeed, as he points out, it can be argued that the ghost story was the genre. Dickens's "A Christmas Carol, " Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw"-most of the early short story writers wrote ghost stories as a matter of course. And the best writer of ghost stories, the acknowledged master, was M.R. James. In Casting the Runes, we have twenty-one tales that, in Chabon's words, "venture to the limits of the human capacity for terror and revulsion...armed only with an umbrella and a very dry wit." The stories here represent the best of James's work. They are set in the leisurely, late-Victorian, middle-class world of country houses, seaside inns, out-of-the-way railway stations, and cathedral closes, where gentlemen of independent means and antiquarian tastes suddenly find themselves confronted by terrifying agents of supernatural malice. But what these tales are really about, writes Chabon, "is ultimately the breathtaking fragility of life, of 'reality, ' of all the structures that we have erected to defend ourselves from our constant nagging suspicion that underlying everything is chaos, brutal and unreasoning." The tales in Casting the Runes are both chilling fun and, as Chabon concludes, "unmistakably works of art." Anyone who loves short fiction or who enjoys a good scare will find these stories an irresistible delight.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x4; The first printing with a new introduction by Michael Chabon. Boards near fine with lightly bumped spine foot. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good with minor shelf-wear. Pages bright, text unmarked.
Add this copy of Casting the Runes: and Other Ghost Stories #21 to cart. $49.50, like new condition, Sold by Pat Cramer,Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lewisville, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Oxford University Press.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. Pocket size hardcover from the Oxford World's Classics #21 Introduction by Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY.
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