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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Author(s)	Roald Dahl
Country	United Kingdom
Genre(s)	Supernatural fiction
Publisher	Jonathan Cape
Publication date	1983
Media type	hardback
ISBN	0-224-02149-4

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories is a 1983 collection of Ghost stories selected by Roald Dahl.^[1]

Dahl read 749 supernatural tales from an array of ghost storytellers at the British Museum Library before selecting 14 that comprise this anthology.^[2] In the book Dahl writes; "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story".^[3]

References

^ Michael Ashley, William Contento The supernatural index: a listing of fantasy, supernatural, occult, weird, and horror anthologies Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995
^ "Macmillan: Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories". Macmillan. http://us.macmillan.com/roalddahlsbookofghoststories. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
^ Lisa Hefner Heitz Haunted Kansas: ghost stories and other eerie tales p.178. University Press of Kansas, 1997

v · d · eWorks by Roald Dahl

Children's novels	The Gremlins (1943) · James and the Giant Peach (1961) · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) · The Magic Finger (1966) · Fantastic Mr Fox (1970) · Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972) · Danny, the Champion of the World (1975) · The Enormous Crocodile (1978) · The Twits (1980) · George's Marvellous Medicine (1981) · The BFG (1982) · The Witches (1983) · The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985) · Matilda (1988) · Esio Trot (1990) · The Minpins (1991) · The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)

Children's poetry	Revolting Rhymes (1982) · Dirty Beasts (1983) · Rhyme Stew (1989)

Adult novels	Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen (1948) · My Uncle Oswald (1979)

Adult short story collections	Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946) · Someone Like You (1953) · Kiss Kiss (1960) · Switch Bitch (1974) · The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977) · Tales of the Unexpected (1979) · More Tales of the Unexpected (1980) · Two Fables (1986) · Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (2006)

Non-fiction	The Mildenhall Treasure (1946) · Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) · Going Solo (1986) · Memories with Food at Gipsy House (1991) · Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety (1991) · My Year (1993)

Film adaptations	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) · Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) · The BFG (1989) · The Witches (1990) · James and the Giant Peach (1996) · Matilda (1996) · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) · Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Plays	The Honeys (1955)

Film scripts	You Only Live Twice (1967) · Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) · The Night Digger (1971) · Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Television series	Way Out (1961) · Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)

See also	Quentin Blake · Roald Dahl short stories bibliography · List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes

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