Publisher Description
Halloween is almost upon us. A time of witches, ghouls, and hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak havoc. Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when we would hear scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time to scare and be scared and no matter how terrifying the stories were, it was a good feeling punctuated by yelps and laughs. Halloween is now firmly established in the calendar as a favorite holiday; to go trick-or-treating, dress up in outlandish attire, and collect vast quantities of sweets is something all children look forward to!
In this collection, poems by John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, Daniel Sheehan, and William Shakespeare demonstrate that words have been used to enthrall, unsettle, and suggest dark mysterious forces beyond our control for quite some time.
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About various authors
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became quite well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer. When he was fourteen, he set off for the capital, Copenhagen, determined to become a national success on the stage. He failed miserably, but made some influential friends in the capital who got him into school to remedy his lack of proper education. In 1829 his first book was published. After that, books came out at regular intervals. His stories began to be translated into English as early as 1846. Since then, numerous editions, and more recently Hollywood songs and Disney cartoons, have helped to ensure the continuing popularity of the stories in the English-speaking world.
About the Narrators
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast
television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization
is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of
master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.