18 books like Medieval Ghost Stories
The Queen's Man
The 12th Century sleuth, Justin de Quincy, investigates a murder which could shed light on a plot to usurp the crown of England. Prince John is scheming to unseat his brother, King Richard the Lionheart, who went missing as he was returning from a crusade.
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Byways of ghost-land
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Cligès
Cligès is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.
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Arthurian chronicles represented by Wace and Layamon
Arthurian Chronicles
Wace, Norman poet (1110-1174)
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Table of Contents
About This Book
Introduction
Wace
Layamon
Excursus I. Arthur's Magic Possessions
Excursus Ii. The Round Table
Excursus Iii. The Hope Of Britain
Bibliography
Wace's Roman De Brut
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The Clock Tower Ghost (Faber Children's Classics)
Awful Amanda, a mean, spiteful, greedy bully, finds herself living in a clock tower that is haunted by the ghost of a proud, rich man with a strangely familiar face.
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Bumps in the night
When he discovers his house is haunted, Dudley Stork enlists the help of his friends to find out what is causing the spooky noises.
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True Irish Ghost Stories
A compilation of true accounts from all over Ireland presents eerie stories about haunted houses, banshees, poltergeists, and other ghostly and strange phenomena that celebrates the tradition of Ireland.
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Grendel
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. This is the book William Gass called "one of the finest of our…
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The ghosts
In the garden of their new home, a brother and sister meet two strange children with whom they return to another century.
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Ghosts!
Presents seven, easy-to-read ghost stories based on traditional folk tales and legends from various countries.
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Short & shivery
Thirty hair-raising tales, selected from international ghostlore, have been skillfully retold especially for young people. Eerie black-and-white illustrations, ghastly details, and strong, shuddery endings make these the kind of stories young readers crave. Famous stories like "The Robber Bridegroom" by the Brothers Grimm, "Tailypo," and "The Golem" are included, as well as retellings of stories…
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Even More Short & Shivery
A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world.
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Rodney Stone
From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make…
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Murder in the Cathedral
A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a chorus, an ancient Greek invention, to express certain concerns and observations, and the killers take their turn to justify their action. When I read this play as a grammar school student in England,…
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Doomed
"The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
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Gus and the baby ghost
Gus, the ghost, and Mr. Frizzle, the museum keeper, have a difference of opinion about the baby ghost abandoned on the museum doorstep.
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More Short & Shivery
A collection of scary folktales from the United States, China, England, Italy, Russia, and other countries around the world.
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Galápagos
Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands.
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