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The Haunted Castle
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First edition
Author Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator Kilmeny Niland
Cover artist Kilmeny Niland
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Fairy Tales
Publisher Angus & Robertson
Publication date
1979
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 96 pp
ISBN 978-0-207-95796-3

The Haunted Castle is a 1979 anthology of 12 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 is a companion volume to Old Witch Boneyleg.

Table of contents

  • 1. The Haunted Castle (Esthonian)
  • 2. The Forbidden Valley (American Indian)
  • 3. Crow and the Pelicans (Australian)
  • 4. The Golden Kingdom (German soldier story)
  • 5. The good old man, the thief, and the ghost (Indian)
  • 6. The spirits in the rat-hole (African)
  • 7. Dear Grey (Pomeranian)
  • 8. Little pot, cook! (Czechoslovakian)
  • 9. Melitsa the Beautiful (Hungarian)
  • 10. The old woman and the oak tree (Slavonian)
  • 11. The queen in the garden (German)
  • 12. The gold spinner (Pomeranian)
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