Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983) is a collection of ghost stories chosen by Roald Dahl. Dahl read 749 supernatural tales from an array of writers at the British Museum before choosing 14 that he considered the best. In the book Dahl writes; "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story". He initially did this while working to develop an American television programme that would feature dramatisations of these stories. He wrote a pilot based on E. F. Benson's "The Hanging
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Short story collection by Roald Dahl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl%27s_Book_of_Ghost_Stories
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2010-12-20T16:23:11Z
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2024-09-04T17:13:04Z
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