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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

byRoald Dahl
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Sirshendu Bhaumik
5.0 out of 5 stars Mind blowing!☺️❤️❤️
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 17 September 2020
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Awesome book!☺️❤️ A GEM IN THE WORLD OF HORROR FICTION!
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A Melancholy Child
3.0 out of 5 stars Okay-ish
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 8 October 2022
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Some stories are good, some are downright unreadable and boring.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 18 April 2018
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True to its name!
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Nandini
1.0 out of 5 stars This book is translated into lucid language for young readers ...
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 31 August 2017
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This book is translated into lucid language for young readers, not suitable for others. Don't buy if looking for complete, unabridged and original works from the pen of roald dahl.
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E. Umba-Neuwinger
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, a little advanced for middle schooler
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 9 February 2023
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Stories are good, not too scary. They are all older stories, so the writing reflects that style. Words and phrases not used now, so can be tricky. I've been reading it to my 12 yo, and we stop to confirm they're following the story. Sometimes we just need to stop and talk about some vocabulary or cut through some long rambling sentences. But over all a good collection of stories!
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Ben mulRooney
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift for a friend.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 7 January 2023
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The books are as described. They were a gift for a friend and they enjoyed the read .
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kship
5.0 out of 5 stars Good stories!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 3 October 2022
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We read this around the campfire- perfect light reading.
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Hotscot
4.0 out of 5 stars Unusual Tales
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 2 April 2022
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While I have not read all the short stories (about 1/2 of them so far), I have found them unusual in the positive sense. As one who has savoured ghost stories for a long time, & have quite a collection of them, these come as a surprise. They are not all exactly ghost stories in the traditional sense, but they are all entertaining. Knowing Roald Dahl's reputation as a humorous writer, I feared that this would be a compilation of ghost story spoofs, but it is far from it. The tales are very imaginative & original. Most entertaining!
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Anna
5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable treat!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 29 November 2015
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Like others who should have read the item description more closely, I purchased this collection thinking it was a book of ghost stories that Roald Dahl had actually written himself. That was my fault. In my defense, however, I wonder why it couldn’t have been entitled “Ghost Stories collected by Roald Dahl”… Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it?

Dahl explains in his introduction that he had an idea for a television series back in 1958. He would use his writing prowess to write a screenplay for each episode based on an excellent ghost story. Dahl set out to find the best ghost stories for this project. He relates that by the end of a marathon reading session, he had read no fewer than 749 ghost stories. I’m pleased with his discernment.

However awesome the ghost story television series could have been, it flopped. What we’re left with is a remarkable collection of 14 ghost stories that one of my favorite storytellers read and loved. You may have heard of some of these authors, such as Sheridan Le Fanu. Others were new for me: Rosemary Timperley, Cynthia Asquith, and Mary Treadgold. My favorite out of the whole crop is Timperley’s “Harry.”

I feel that any fan of Roald Dahl’s short stories (the ones for grownups) will certainly admire this collection. Knowing that he recommended them tells me they’re going to be satisfying. As he remarks, “Good ghost stories are damnably difficult to write.” So let’s sit back and enjoy this spectacular little collection!
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Deborah L. Moore
4.0 out of 5 stars Roald Dahl book
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 29 July 2022
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This spooky story book is very good but I am irritated at myself for not realizing that this book wouldn't be full of creepy stories by Roald Dahl instead of other people.
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