Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.

Wimbourne Books presents the eighteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 18 contains stories published anonymously in Britain between 1842 and 1898. 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 Phantom Hag; Legend of the Golden Leg (1842); The Death-Seer (1844); The Phantom Face (1845); A Ghost Story (1845); Apparitions (1846); The God-Forsaken (1850); The Ghost's Night-Cap (1860); The Hall-Spectre (1861); The Haunted Lodge (1866); Eleanor (1868); Not a Dream (1869); The Mystic Handwriting (1870); The Haunted House (1870); A Desperate Run (1878); The Chess-Player (1885); The Old House in Covent Garden (1889); The Brand of Cain (1895); The Grange Mystery (1896); A Traveller's Warning (1898).

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