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Stories of Ghosts and Mystery

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Rudyard Kipling

Three authors reveal the obscure corners of the occult. In Le Fanu’s ‘Dickon the Devil’ the narrator discovers that the sinister ghosts of the past have never left Barwyke Hall. Rudyard Kipling tells the story of a man who disappears mysteriously. In Hawthorne’s ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’, the Puritan Reverend Hooper is plagued by a terrible secret sin that forces him to wear a black veil.

Theme

The supernatural; fear; ghosts; mysterious events
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CEFR Level B1
Level Secondary
Language British English
Type Fiction (classic)
Genre Mystery and horror
Publisher Black Cat
Year 2009
Number of Pages 112
Number of activities 89
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