The Wedding Ghost

Hardcover, 66 pages

English language

Published June 25, 1987 by Oxford University Press, USA.

ISBN:
978-0-19-279779-7
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With a magical text by Leon Garfield and superbly evocative pictures by Charles Keeping, this strangely moving story of a ghostly wedding has become a classic of its time. It is now reissued in paperback with a new cover.

3 editions

This book is weird.

The story is entirely absurd because there's the whole thing about, like, how this man ends up going and getting two wives? One is real and the other is a ghost that haunts him? It's just... not a good story overall.

It's also frequently listed as a "horror story for children," but it isn't. The audience is uncertain because it's not for anyone. The language is strange, the drawings are creepy, and the topic isn't even relevant for children; it's as if someone slammed a short story onto a picture book and some weird adults thought (because it looks like a picture book!) that it was meant for kids.

It's pretty... trash.

Subjects

  • English literature: essays, letters & other non-fiction prose works
  • English literature: literary criticism
  • General
  • Ghosts
  • Children: Grades 4-6
  • Fairy tales
  • Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
  • Fiction