After the End of the Line: Railroad Hauntings in Literature and Lore 💀 scary.co

"I had made everything right and was just about to give the starting signal with my whistle, when as I walked alongside the train, glancing into a compartment here and there, whom should I see sitting in one of the carriages—as plainly as ever I saw anything in my life—but the dead man, Mr. Muxloe!"— from “B 88” (1871)In the mid-1800s, ghosts and trains seemed to be heading in opposite directions: ghosts disappearing with the superstitious past and trains speeding into a future of mechanical progress.But it did not take long for new ghosts to book passage on the modern railways.After the End of the Line: Railroad Hauntings in Literature and Lore combines fiction, poetry, memoir, news-paper articles, and more to reveal how their cross-influence created horrifying accounts of apparitions on the tracks, haunted train tunnels and switching stations, even phantom locomotives!

Release Date 09/01/2021
Authors Charles Dickens , Tim Prasil , Amelia B. Edwards , Sabine Baring-Gould , Bret Harte , William L. Alden
Language English
Companies Brom Bones Books
Format Paperback

Horror Anthologies , Ghost Fiction , Short Stories Anthologies

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