Sentence examples for spectral Book from inspiring English sources

The Spectral Book of Horror Stories is published by Spectral (£10).

Citing two classic anthology series from the 1970s as his inspiration, editor Mark Morris's ambition for the new Spectral Book of Horror Stories series is for it to become a watchword for genre excellence.

ST Joshi (PS Publishing) Best novella: Newspaper Heart, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories) Best short story: A Woman's Place, Emma Newman (Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets) The Special award (the Karl Edward Wagner award): Juliet E McKenna.

Men were definitely in the minority across the 14 awards, though the Bafta-winning screenwriter Stephen Volk – whose credits include Afterlife, Ghostwatch and, most recently, the BBC adaptation of Phil Rickman's The Midwinter of the Spirit – won the best novella for Newspaper Heart, an eerie Guy Fawkes night tale found in last year's Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

At this point, the spectral book-within-the book that has appeared in italicized snippets — the anonymous story of an unhappily married Yugoslav woman who is unfaithful to her husband — begins to make sense.

The audience included Sue Ainscough, an Englishwoman who lives in Italy with her husband, Maurizio Calbi, a Shakespeare scholar and the author of the book "Spectral Shakespeares," which examines experimental adaptations of the playwright's work.

The processional robed figures in Jacob Kramer's Day of Atonement (1919) appear, from the distance of the research room, to be wrapped books, spectral volumes stacked together like the reversed library of Rachel Whiteread's Judenplatz memorial.

This narrator, it should be noted, is a somewhat spectral presence in the book.

In the painting for Ms. Royall's book, a spectral couple hover in the smoke above a bonfire, and in the painting for Mr. Mercer's book, human figures are spread out against a flat, dark-brown background, with the silhouette of a tenement neighborhood looming overhead.

But a more frequent unnamed figure in fiction today is a relative of the strange, spectral speakers in such books as Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" or Marguerite Duras's "The Lover".

There is throughout Manea's fiction (four strange, alluring novellas, a murky novel, and a book of dazzling, spectral stories have been translated into English) a pervasive sense of unreality.