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| | Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories edited by Robert Phillips - an infinity plus review |
 | | This is a Good Thing, and the boldness of selection is also, perhaps, one of the reasons why I found a good number of hits and misses in this book, instead of the predictable mediocrity of so many theme anthologies. |
 | | Stories that particularly struck me included those by Max Beerbohm, Elizabeth Bowen, F Marion Crawford, Max Eberts, James Leo Herlihy, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher Tilghman and William Trevor. |
 | | Those that fell flat included a number of the bigger guns: Franz Kafka, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rudyard Kipling and Muriel Spark, to name but four. |
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