[PDF] Classic Victorian And Edwardian Ghost Stories eBook

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 13,95 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 : Mike Stocks
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1409569179

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Six spine-tingling stories dug up and dusted down for today's readers. Enter the terrifying world of Victorian ghouls and ghostly apparitions – if you dare.

Author : Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Four Ghost Stories by Mrs. Molesworth is a well-known and terrifying collection of ghost stories to send a chill down your spine. You will be shocked by these unpredictable and bizarre happenings that you have never before heard of.

Author : M. R. James
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2017-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1537822357

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Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.

Author : Jack Dann
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006210070X

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Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear! Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,6 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.