Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others

Author: John Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Eleven thrilling tales, featuring works by the finest masters of the genre: Mary E. Wilkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Henry James, J. S. LeFanu, Ralph Cram, Mrs. Henry Wood, and more.

Classic Ghost Stories

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This collection offers ghost stories that have long been considered classical: stories that have served as prototypes for other work, and stories that are in themselves uniquely great.

Ghost Stories

Author: Leslie S Klinger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643131192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers—including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton. The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. Acclaimed anthologists Leslie S. Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) and Lisa Morton (Ghosts: A Haunted History) set these stories in historical context and trace the literary significance of ghosts in fiction over almost two hundred years—from a traditional English ballad first printed in 1724 up to the science fiction–tinged tales of the early twentieth century. In bringing these masterful tales back from the dead, Ghost Stories will enlighten and frighten both longtime fans as well as new readers of the genre. Including stories by: Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and more.

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192804472
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 521

Book Description
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

Author: Rex Collings
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840220667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Great Scenes from Horror Stories

Author: John Green
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486488403
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Filled with thrills and chills, this coloring book features bloodcurdling scenes from more than two dozen well-known tales of horror. Includes memorable scenes from Frankenstein, The Raven, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and more.

Becoming Insomniac

Author: L. Scrivner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137268743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures.

A Bottomless Grave

Author: Hugh Lamb
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Twenty-one rare, seldom-anthologized stories include "A Bottomless Grave" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Ship that Saw a Ghost" by Frank Norris, Guy de Maupassant's "The Tomb," other gems of the genre.

The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories

Author: Various
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840220568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1176

Book Description
A superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre; many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from the vintage era of the supernatural.

The Haunted Looking Glass

Author: Edward Gorey
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9780940322684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied by Gorey's inimitable illustrations. ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, "The Empty House" W.F. HARVEY, "August Heat" CHARLES DICKENS, "The Signalman" L.P. HARTLEY, "A Visitor from Down Under" R.H. MALDEN, "The Thirteenth Tree" ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Body-Snatcher" E. NESBIT, "Man-Size in Marble" BRAM STOKER, "The Judge's House" TOM HOOD, "The Shadow of a Shade" W.W. JACOBS, "The Monkey's Paw," WILKIE COLLINS, "The Dream Woman" M.R. JAMES, "Casting the Runes"