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

Wimbourne Books presents the twentieth 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 20 contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1838 and 1900. 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 a complete and comprehensive index of all 400 ghost stories appearing in the first twenty volumes of The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories.

Includes the stories; The Haunted House (1838) - Emma Whitehead; Schalken the Painter (1839) - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington (1841) - Charles Ollier; The Ghost-Seer of Tresillion (1851) - Charles Wooley; Mr. H's Own Narrative (1861) - Thomas Frank Heaphy; The Tread of Invisible Feet (1871) - Justin McCarthy; The Haunted Rock (1871) - Charles F. F. Woods; What Was Seen by Juan Valdez in Saltillo (1884) - Thomas Allibone Janvier; The Dream House (1887) - Margaret Raine Hunt; The Green Lady (1887) - Walter Herries Pollock; A Night at Ouseley Manor (1890) - Katharine Sarah Macquoid; A Faded Scapular (1891) - Francis Davis Millet; The Judge's House (1891) - Bram Stoker; The White Priest (1893) - Helene Gingold; The Empty Picture Frame (1895) - Louisa Baldwin; At the Dip of the Road (1895) - Mary Louisa Molesworth; A White Blot: The Story of a Picture (1895) - Henry van Dyke; The Old House on Romney Marsh (1897) - Hezekiah Butterworth; Trooper Thompson's Information (1899) - Bithia Mary Croker; The Ghost of Eugene Aram (1900) - Henry Augustus Hering.
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