The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the thirteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 13 contains stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1841 and 1900. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the almost comical politeness and structured etiquette, the archaic and precise language, but mostly the Victorians' skill at stoking our fears and trepidations, our insecurities and doubts. Even if you are already an aficionado of the ghostly tale there is much within these pages to interest you. Wait until the dark of the snowy night, lock the doors, shutter the windows, light the fire, sit with your back to the wall and bury yourself in the Victorian macabre. Try not to let the creaking floorboards, the distant howl of a dog, the chill breeze that caresses the candle, the shadows in the far recesses of your room, disturb your concentration.

Includes the stories; The Heart and the Key (1841) - Haunted (1860) - The Demon Spectre: A True Ghost Story of Virginia (1861) - Midnight at Marshland Grange (1863) - Mrs. M. (1867) - Tremewen Grange (1867) - An American Ghost (1868) - Mrs. Brown's Ghost Story (1868) - The Phantom Fourth (1868) - The Dead Sister (1869) - The Tregethan's Curse; or, The Weird Woman (1871) - An Old Woman's Story (1871) - The Haunted Mill (1874) - Stronger Than Death (1876) - An Extra Passenger (1887) - Faithful unto Death (1887) - My Uncle's Clock (1888) - The Cupboard at Wyncope Manor (1889) - A Ghostly Adventure on Exmoor (1891) - The Phantom Picture (1900).

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