Classic Victorian And Edwardian Ghost Stories
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| Author | : Rex Collings |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781840220667 |
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.
| Author | : Rex Collings |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781853261862 |
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.
| Author | : Richard Dalby |
| Publisher | : Carroll & Graf Pub |
| Total Pages | : 573 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780786702794 |
Gathers forty of the best English and American ghost stories from the genre's golden age of 1839 to 1910, including works by Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ambrose Bierce. Original.
| Author | : M. R. James |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 2017-12-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1537822357 |
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.
| Author | : Jack Dann |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2011-09-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 006210070X |
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.
| Author | : Michael Newton |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2010-02-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141943815 |
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
| Author | : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781853262180 |
Includes tales which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals.
| Author | : Henry James |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2017-10-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141389761 |
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
| Author | : E F Benson |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2016-10-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1473546346 |
Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson. There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that? Don't be frightened of the dark corners of your room. Don't be alarmed by a sudden, inexplicable chill. There's no need for a ticking clock, a limping footstep, or a knock at the door to start you trembling. There's nothing to be scared of. Nothing at all.
| Author | : Montague Rhodes James |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781840225518 |
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M.R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot. Lonely country houses, remote inns, ancient churches or the manuscript collections of great libraries provide settings for unbearable menace, from creatures seeking retribution and harm. These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb. This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story. Darryl Jones's introduction and notes provide a fascinating insight into James's background and his mastery of the genre he made his own. --! From publisher's description.
