The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

✍ Michael Cox 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 387 KB 👁 3 views

The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more genera

Victorian ghost stories : an Oxford anthology

✍ Cox, Michael, 1948-2009; Gilbert, R. A 📂 Fiction 📅 1991 🏛 Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 576 KB

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

12 Victorian Ghost Stories

✍ Cox, Michael, 1948-2009 📂 Fiction 📅 1997 🏛 Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 332 KB

An engineer's story / Amelia B. Edwards -- Madam Crowl's ghost / J.S. Le Fanu -- Poor Pretty Bobby / Rhoda Broughton -- The ghostly rental / Henry James -- The lady's walk / Margaret Oliphant -- No. 11 Welham Square / Herbert Stephen -- The Khitmatgar / B.M. Croker -- Old Gervais / Mary Louisa Moles

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christm

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

✍ Tara Moore (ed) 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Valancourt Books 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 267 KB 👁 1 views

***The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals*** During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside o

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

✍ Stern, Simon 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Valancourt Books 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 162 KB 👁 1 views

*A new collection of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals* Seeking to capitalize on the success of Charles Dickens's *A Christmas Carol* (1843), Victorian newspapers and magazines frequently featured ghost stories at Christmas time, and reading them by

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christm

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

✍ Tara Moore 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Valancourt Books 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 267 KB 👁 2 views

***The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals*** During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside o