The Thousand and One Ghosts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847497574)

Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself in to the mayor after decapitating his wife, terrified by the fact that her severed head spoke to him even after her death. This prompts the guests at a dinner Dumas attends later that evening to exchange stories of death and the supernatural, ranging from accounts of the guillotine during the Terror to tales of vampires and fratricide in the Carpathians.

The Thousand and One Ghosts - here presented in its first and only translation into English - is a gloriously macabre work by the celebrated author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, which also touches on the serious political issue of capital punishment.

Author: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN-10: 1847497578
ISBN-13: 9781847497574
Publisher: Alma Books
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d