Ghost writing
The wonderful Vintage Classics (I’ve really fallen in love with them.) are releasing another batch of beauties on 4 Oct 2007. This time the batch includes:
THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY by Mervyn Peake
DRACULA by Bram Stoker
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE by R. L. Stevenson
THE WOMAN IN BLACK by Susan Hill
THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins
THE TURN OF THE SCREW by Henry James
And to go along with this release, which is just in time for Halloween, Vintage along with The Times have opened a Ghost Story Competition . Strangely, in that it doesn’t normally happen, is that one of the judges (Susan Hill) has released some advice on ghost stories for entrants to follow. She makes an interesting argument on the nature of a ghost story. It might be little too strict for some tastes.
Unfortunately, I do judge a book by its cover, on which subject there’ll be a post shortly, and Vintage are doing a sterling job of making them interesting but stylish at the same time.
I love The Woman in White, one of my all time favorite books.
I’m not sure about them. I prefer the old Vintage Classics, with the white tab. But probably because I like Penguin Classics with their grey tab. (And I like the author’s full name on a cover…unless it’s Saki.)
<em>The Woman in White</em> is high on my list. It’s half price preorder on Amazon.co.uk at the moment too.
I like the little play with Vintage and the surname as it implies that it’s a ‘classical/vintage’ example of that author.
But I like the spine better. The blood red and silver looks good.
Penguin has just gone retro with a re-covering of some their best books. The website is here.