With Halloween approaching, we long instead for chills and shivers, for favorite ghost stories and frightful tales, old and new. You can learn more about these two titles from the authors’ atmospheric book trailers on YouTube. But don’t gasp at the $85 price — just to see a Centipede Book is to want to own it. The Folio Book of Ghost Stories (Folio Society)The Folio Society is probably the only “commercial” press that rivals Centipede in commissioning superb new art to illustrate its publications. Tibbetts’s study, illustrated with photographs and drawings, is a must-read for any admirer of this restlessly protean man of letters.

Source: Washington Post October 19, 2016 18:56 UTC