Storie di giovani fantasmi

by Isaac Asimov (Editor), Francesca Cavattoni (Translator), M.R. James

C'è chi ci crede, e c'è che non ci crede. Ma Isaac Asimov, il curatore di quest'antologia di racconti sui giovani fantasmi, è convinto che anche lo scettico più incallito, non sarebbe disposto a passare da solo un'intera notte in una casa infestata da strani rumori, fugaci apparizioni, arcane presenza. Come nelle casa maledetta, anche in questi racconti on si può entrare senza provare un certo brivido giù per la schiena. Di fantasmi, qui ce ne sono di tutti i tipi: da quello dispettoso a quello che si limita a vagare inquieto, da quello che vuole avvertirci di un pericolo incombente a quello che viene addirittura dal futuro.
Ce n'è proprio per tutti i brividi e per tutti i gusti.

Contiene le storie:
Cuori perduti (Lost Hearts, M.R. James);
Sulla strada di Brighton (On the Brighton Road, Richard Middleton);
Povero Piccolo Sabato (Poor Little Saturda, Madeleine l'Engle)
Un paio di mani (A Pair of Hands, Arthur Quiller-Couch);
Vecchi fantasmi /Old Haunts, Richard Matheson);
Uno spettro davvero strano (An Uncommon Sort of Spectre, Edwarda Page Mitchell);
La casa dell'incubo (The House of the Nightmare, Edward Lucas White);
La terza presenza (The Shadowy Third, Ellen Glasgow);
La strada del crepuscolo (The Twilight Road, H.F. Brinsmead);
Il cambio della guardia (The Changing of the Guard, Rod Serling adapted by Anne Serling).

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Young Adult, Horror, Ghosts, Fiction, Anthologies

175 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.

Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.

Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).

People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.

Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.

Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.

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Reviews

[Jenika Ioffreda · Rating 5 out of 5]

read it many years ago and I loved it.

[Emkoshka · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I was a child, Mum used to order books from the Doubleday publishers catalogue, and I remember lovingly poring over each month's pages then eagerly awaiting the package in the mail. This book came in a set of three along with Asimov's Monsters and Asimov's Extraterrestrials (not sure why we didn't get Asimov's Mutants) and they featured a colour-coded dragon symbol to signify the recommended reading age; in this case, '8 years upwards'. I loved looking at the covers, but I never read them as a child. Or a teenager. In fact, not until now, as I hit my late 30s, have I deigned to pick up this book and actually read it. That's probably a good thing because, despite featuring children, these are not stories for children. I probably would've been bored to tears as a child. Or baffled by the language. Some of the stories are a bit quaint, and the most recent is an adaptation of a Twilight Zone episode from 1985. I did enjoy 'Lost Hearts' by M.R. James and 'A Pair of Hands' by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, but most of the others are forgettable, unlike the ghost stories I recently inhaled in Kate Mosse's Mistletoe Bride. Still, I'll read the other two anthologies I have now, to make good on Mum's mail-order prezzies from 30 years ago.

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020 prompt: An anthology

[Francesco Alessio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ottimo libro: la prefazione di Asimov è scritta molto bene, istruttiva e scorrevole. Le storie sono tutte scorrevoli, interessanti e ancora piuttosto attuali. Non ho ben compreso il penultimo racconto, tuttavia questo libro resta un eccellente compagno di pomeriggi, al punto da rimpiangerlo già quando si sta per finire di leggerlo.

[Chicca Palmentieri · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 stelle e mezzo.

[Il mondo di Cry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Davvero bellissimo. Mi sono piaciuti tutti i racconti all'interno di questo libro.
Una delle mie raccolte preferite.

[Alessia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Piacevole intermezzo, racconti molto carini e ben scritti. Una selezione di racconti da parte di Asimov, semplici aneddoti in cui fantasmi e paranormale strizzano l'occhio a un pubblico di giovani lettori. Cercherò anche l'altro, dedicato ai giovani maghi. Asimov non è molto nelle miei corde, ma evidentemente i nostri gusti sono compatibili.

[Vanlilith · Rating 4 out of 5]

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