The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 22 💀 scary.co

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the twenty-second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of the genre anywhere. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 22 contains stories published in America and Britain between 1845 and 1899. Includes stories by Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling and M. R. James. 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 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 Monomaniac (1845) - Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet; Ghost Stories (1848) - George Washington Peck; George Whitmore's Great-Uncle (1850) - Mary Ann Bird; The Monktons of Wincot Abbey (1855) - Wilkie Collins; The Sheep Farmer’s Story (1859) - Catherine Ann Crowe; Four Stories (1861) - Edward Bulwer-Lytton; D'Outre Mort (1866) - Harriet Prescott Spofford; Not A Doubt of It (1869) - William Morley Farrow; Since I Died (1873) - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward; The Spectre of the Hemlock Gorge (1874) - Charles W. Jay; Under the Sheer-Legs (1875) - Henry Tinson; An Antiquary's Ghost Story (1880) - Augustus Jessopp; A Curious Experience (1883) - Ellen Wood; The Phantom 'Rickshaw (1885) - Rudyard Kipling; A Dead Man's Vengeance (1888) - William John Butterworth Bird; The Last of the Ghosts (1888) - Barrett Wendell; The Old House on the Cliff (1889) - William Wilthew Fenn; Geordie Blair's Luck (1897) - Birch Vye and Sydney Phelps; The Piano Next Door (1898) - Elia Wilkinson Peattie; Number 13 (1899) - M. R. James.

Release Date 08/05/2022
Authors M. R. James , Wilkie Collins , Rudyard Kipling , Edward Bulwer Lytton , Alastair Gunn , Harriet Prescott Spofford , William Wilthew Fenn , Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet , Catherine Ann Crowe
Language English
Companies Wimbourne Books

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