| A Halloween Reader: Poems, Stories, and Plays from Halloween Past Contributor(s): Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1589801768 ISBN-13: 9781589801769 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2004 Annotation: Collection of Halloween poems from such writers as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Edgar Allan Poe; nineteenth-century plays and parlor dramas; "penny dreadful" stories from early periodicals to modern writers; and newspaper articles from the last 150 years. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Fiction | Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004014559 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.24" W x 8.94" (0.89 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Holiday - Halloween |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This anthology contains the works of writers from the 16th to the early 20th centuries who evoke the night to set a scene, twist a plot, or explain something inexplicable, like madness or time travel. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bannatyne, Lesley: - One of the nation's foremost authorities on Halloween, Lesley Pratt Bannatyne has shared her vast knowledge of the holiday in television specials for Nickelodeon and the History Channel. For more than twenty years, she also has been active in the theater. She currently is co-director of Invisible Cities Group and co-artistic director of the Studebaker Theater. Ms. Bannatyne resides in Medford, Massachusetts, and has been named one of Boston's 100 Interesting Women by Boston Woman magazine. |