A Book of Spooks and Spectres

infobox Book |
name = A Book of Spooks and Spectres
title_orig =
translator =
author = Ruth Manning-Sanders
cover_artist = Robin Jacques
illustrator = Robin Jacques
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fairy Tales
publisher = E. P. Dutton
release_date = 1980
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 128 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-525-27045-0

A Book of Spooks and Spectres is a 1980 anthology of 23 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.

This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979, by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

In the introduction, the author writes: "If you were to meet a Spook and a Spectre walking together, would you know which was which? Not necessarily. Both are ghostly beings, and you might possibly mistake one for the other. Yet there is a great difference. Spooks have always been Spooks; they have a king to rule over them, and a country of their own. Spectres, on the other hand, have not always been Spectres. They were once creatures of flesh and blood, generally human beings, who after death, find the gates of heaven and hell shut against them, and so must return to earth."

Table of contents

*Introduction
*1. Old Tommy and the Spectre (England)
*2. La-lee-lu (U.S.A.)
*3. Football on a Lake (China)
*4. The Spooks' Party (Russia)
*5. Spooks a-hunting (Tyrol)
*6. Yi Chang and the Spectres (Korea)
*7. Dilly-dilly-doh! (Iceland)
*8. The Owl (Switzerland)
*9. The Black Spectre (Italian Tyrol)
*10. Rubizal and the Miller's Daughter (Bohemia)
*11. The Spook and the Beer Barrel (Denmark)
*12. Tummeldink (Schleswig-Holstein)
*13. Tangletop (Germany)
*14. The Spook and the Pigs (Bohemia)
*15. The Spectre Wolf (U.S.A.)
*16. The Inn of the Stone and Spectre (Germany)
*17. The Little Old Man in the Tree (Yugoslavia)
*18. Goralasi and the Spectres (Australia)
*19. The Lake (Estonia)
*20. Strange Visitors (Korea)
*21. The Dance of the Spectres (Savoy)
*22. Heaven Forbid! (Denmark)
*23. Ha! ha! ha! (Germany)

Note

*On the contents page, it is stated: "For permission to retell Goralasi and the Spectres the author wishes to thank Messrs Erich Röth - Verlag, Kassel."

ee also

*Spectre
*Ghost