cover image The Haunted Looking Glass

The Haunted Looking Glass

Ward Gorey. New York Review of Books, $14.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-940322-68-4

An elegant reprint anthology of 12 classic stories is The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen and Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Readers can trust that the late maven of the macabre has picked the most ghoulish works by the likes of Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, R.H. Malden and Robert Louis Stevenson.