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.

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.

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.

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.

Solv-a-crime Puzzles

Author: A. C. Gordon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486285528
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Challenges the reader to solve forty-seven crimes, and provides solutions

Five Victorian Ghost Novels

Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486225586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Full texts of "The Uninhabited House" by Riddell; "The Amber Witch" by Meinhold; "Monsieur Maurice" by Edwards; "A Phantom Lover" by Lee; and "The Ghost of Muir House" by Beale. 6 illustrations.