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Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn the pages.

I've reviewed a few of these collections previously - released to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth, and to reaffirm his reputation as one of our most beloved writers. Charming Baker has provided another stunning and fitting image for the cover, but the contents are rather different - those were collections consisting of stories written by Dahl - but ''Fear'' takes a different approach - an introduction by Dahl followed by fourteen stories picked by Dahl himself. Thankfully, Dahl was almost a skilled a curator as he was an author - and these stories are a perfectly-picked pot to keep you hiding under the covers at night.

I'm a big fan of [[:Category:Edith Wharton|Edith Wharton]], so I was delighted to see ''Afterward'' here - a woman recalling the events leading up to the dissapearance of her husband. Clever and hugely original, it's one I always enjoy reading. ''The Corner Shop'' by Cynthia Asquith manages to be both spine chilling and heart warming, as does ''Playmates'' by Burrage, and ''In The Tube'' by [[:Category:E F Benson|E.F. Benson]] asks intriguing questions in a very round about manner.

From the incredibly moving ''Christmas Meeting'' by Rosemary Timperley through to the mysterious and gothic ''The Ghost of a Hand'' by Le Fanu, Dahl collected a series of stories that are rather pleasantly scary - nothing to make you afraid to sleep, but wonderfully well written tales that'll give you the occasional fright. It's rather a shame I read this during the height of summer - it's one I'll be tucking away for reading in front of the fire with a big glass of wine.

Many thanks to the publishers for the copy - for further reading I'd recommend [[Tales of Death and Dementia by Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly]] - another beautiful collection that entertains as much as it unsettles.

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 From the incredibly moving ''Christmas Meeting'' by Rosemary Timperley through to the mysterious and gothic ''The Ghost of a Hand'' by Le Fanu, Dahl collected a series of stories that are rather pleasantly scary - nothing to make you afraid to sleep, but wonderfully well written tales that'll give you the occasional fright. It's rather a shame I read this during the height of summer - it's one I'll be tucking away for reading in front of the fire with a big glass of wine.
 Many thanks to the publishers for the copy - for further reading I'd recommend [[Tales of Death and Dementia by Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly]] - another beautiful collection that entertains as much as it unsettles.
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