[PDF] 12 Victorian Ghost Stories eBook

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0192804472

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Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Author : Richard Dalby
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786702794

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Gathers forty of the best English and American ghost stories from the genre's golden age of 1839 to 1910, including works by Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ambrose Bierce. Original.

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781840220667

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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.

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144654107X

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Zoe Lehmann Imfeld
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319302191

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This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context of agnosticism – as stories which reveal a society struggling with Christian orthodoxy in a new ‘Enlightened’ world. This book, however, uses theological ideas from St Augustine through to modern theologians to identify a theological journey taken by the protagonists of such stories, and charts each stage of this journey through the short stories it examines. It also proposes a theory of reader participation which creates an imaginary space in which modern epistemology is suspended. The book studies the work of four major authors of the supernatural tale: Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James.

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Victorian writers excelled at the ghost story. Here editor Michael Cox brings together well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave. Traditional in form but inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501066092

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Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.

Author : J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 9180944272

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»An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street« is a short story by L. Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1853. JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU [1814-1873] was an Irish mystery and horror author. He had an enormous influence on the horror genre in the 19th and 20th century, especially through his championing of tone and effect rather than shock factor. Among his most noted work is the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla [1872] and mystery Uncle Silas [1864].

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0241955718

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Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.