Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost StoriesWordsworth Editions, 2008 - 304 strán (strany) 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. |
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SIR WALTER SCOTT | 1 |
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM | 13 |
R S HAWKER | 35 |
EDGAR ALLAN | 44 |
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY | 63 |
CHARLES DICKENS | 79 |
To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt | 94 |
JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU | 104 |
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | 171 |
ManSize in Marble | 185 |
OSCAR WILDE | 195 |
The Haunted Dolls House | 219 |
A School Story | 229 |
PERCEVAL LANDON | 235 |
HOWARD PEASE | 248 |
SAKI H H MUNRO | 256 |
Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand | 122 |
JOHN LANG | 129 |
The Travellers Story of a Terribly Strange Bed | 136 |
The Phantom Coach | 150 |
MISS BRADDON | 162 |
AN APPENDIX OF THREE TRUE GHOST STORIES | 263 |
A CLERGYMAN | 270 |
Correspondence on A Ghostly Manifestation | 280 |