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.

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories

Author: Rex Collings
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This work comprises a collection of classic and lesser-known ghost stories from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It includes ghosts as fictional creations and as real apparitions. It includes contributions from all over the world.

Ghosts by Gaslight

Author: Jack Dann
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006210070X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear! Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Author: M. R. James
Publisher:
ISBN: 1537822357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.

Madam Crowl's Ghost

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Includes tales which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals.

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories

Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141943815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton

The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141389761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny 'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light footstep' 'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. This new collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, 'The Turn of the Screw', a work saturated with evil, in which a fraught governess becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the children in her care. The other masterly works here include 'The Jolly Corner', 'Owen Wingrave' and further tales of visitations, premonitions, madness, grief and family secrets, where the living are just as mysterious and unknowable as the dead. With an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt General Editor Philip Horne

Victorian Ghost Stories

Author: Richard Dalby
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780881844733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
Twenty-one stories from the pens of such writers as Charlotte Bronte and Willa Cather.

Spectral Tales

Author: M. R. James
Publisher: Warbler Classics
ISBN: 9781734029208
Category : Horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An inspired selection of ghost stories chosen for their literary style, psychological complexity, and enduring power to electrify both the imagination and the senses. Includes H. P. Lovecraft's essay, "On the Supernatural in Poetry."

Detection by Gaslight

Author: Douglas G. Greene
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.