Victorian And Edwardian Ghost Stories

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 184022066X

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Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Rex Collings Pdf

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 : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786702796

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The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby Pdf

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 : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ghost stories, English
ISBN : 0760703531

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Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby Pdf

Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : OCLC:939626183

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The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby Pdf

This anthology contains the best from the golden age of the ghost story, spanning the Victorian era to the end of the Edwardian. Many of literature's greatest names are in this collection and they provide deliciously chilling entertainment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ghost stories, English
ISBN : 1853260401

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Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ellen Wood,Charlotte Riddell
Publisher : Valancourt Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948405210

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The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three by Ellen Wood,Charlotte Riddell Pdf

A new anthology of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals Seeking to capitalize on the success of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Victorian newspapers and magazines frequently featured ghost stories at Christmas time, and reading them by candlelight or the fireside became an annual tradition, a tradition Valancourt Books is pleased to continue with our series of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. This third volume contains twenty tales, most of them never before reprinted. They represent a mix of the diverse styles and themes common to Victorian ghost fiction and include works by once-popular authors like Ellen Wood and Charlotte Riddell as well as contributions from anonymous or wholly forgotten writers. This volume also features a new introduction by Prof. Simon Stern. "Before me, with the sickly light from the lantern shining right down upon it, was--a cloven hoof! Then the awfulness of the compact I had made came to my mind with terrible force ..." - Frederick Manley, "The Ghost of the Cross-Roads" "By the fireplace there was a large hideous pool of blood soaking into the carpet, and leaving ghastly stains around. I am not ashamed to confess that my brain reeled; the mysterious horror overcame me ..." - Lillie Harris, "19, Great Hanover Street" "A fearful white face comes to me; a horrible mask, with features drawn as in agony--ghastly, pale, hideous! Death or approaching death, violent death, written in every line. Every feature distorted. Eyes starting from the head. Thin lips moving and working--lips that are cursing, although I hear no sound." - Hugh Conway, "A Dead Man's Face"

Author : Alistair W.J. Kerr
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788854719

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Tales for Twilight by Alistair W.J. Kerr Pdf

Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it's because of the tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems and ballads with supernatural themes. The golden age was during the Victorian and Edwardian period, but the ghost story has continued to evolve and remains popular to this day. Includes stories from Sir Walter Scott, George Mackay Brown, Muriel Spark, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy Boothby, Algernon Blackwood, Eileen Bigland, Ronald Duncan, James Robertson and Ian Rankin.

Author : Sheridan Le Fanu,Robert Louis Stevenson,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Catherine Crowe
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398840744

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Victorian Ghost Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu,Robert Louis Stevenson,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Catherine Crowe Pdf

By flickering candlelight, these haunting tales were carefully penned by some of greatest writers of the Victorian era, including Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine Crowe and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Victorian era has been dubbed the "Golden Age of the Ghost Story", producing some of the most iconic and masterful ghost stories the genre has ever seen. In this exquisite collection, you will find 14 terrifying tales which have been haunting readers for more than a century. Be transported to cobwebbed crypts, creaking manor houses, and dusky moors, where peril lies just around the corner. Includes: • The Dream - Sheridan Le Fanu • The Italian's Story - Catherine Crowe • Eveline's Visitant - Mary Elizabeth Braddon • The Body Snatcher - Rudyard Kipling • And many more! Perfect for horror lovers, these classic ghost stories are sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle,Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943910561

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The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle,Walter Scott Pdf

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume. "In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed, with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave, and awaiting the demon that animated it?" - John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" "Suddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Something--what, I knew not--seemed near, something nameless, but unutterably awful." - Ada Buisson, "The Ghost's Summons" "There was no longer any question what she was, or any thought of her being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions which had animated her while she lived." - Walter Scott, "The Tapestried Chamber"

Author : M. R. James
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387317855

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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Jack Dann,Dr. Nick Gevers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062100702

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Ghosts by Gaslight by Jack Dann,Dr. Nick Gevers Pdf

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 : Montague Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446541074

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Victorian Ghost Stories by Montague Summers Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781804172599

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Victorian Ghost Stories by Anonim Pdf

The Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets and long dark lanes. A fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in. Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Sabine Baring-Gould, Vernon Lee, Edith Nesbit and the master of all, M.R. James. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Author : Mike Stocks
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409569176

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Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold by Mike Stocks Pdf

Six spine-tingling stories dug up and dusted down for today's readers. Enter the terrifying world of Victorian ghouls and ghostly apparitions – if you dare.

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547720898

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The Book of Ghosts (Collected Horror Tales) by Sabine Baring-Gould Pdf

A Book of Ghosts is a collection of occult stories and gothic tales of ghosts and other supernatural creatures that haunt minds and houses of people since the dawn of time. Table of Contents: Jean Bouchon Pomps and Vanities McAlister The Leaden Ring The Mother of Pansies The Red-haired Girl A Professional Secret H. P. Glámr Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story The Merewigs The "Bold Venture" Mustapha Little Joe Gander A Dead Finger Black Ram A Happy Release The 9.30 Up-train On the Leads Aunt Joanna The White Flag