The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

✍ Scribed by Moore, Tara

• Book ID: 108809015
• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 197 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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 or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens’s "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume.

"In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed, with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave, and awaiting the demon that animated it?" - John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" . . . Contents: The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell Horror: A True Tale by John Berwick Harwood "Bring Me A Light!" by Anonymous Old Hooker’s Ghost by Anonymous The Ghost’s Summons by Ada Buisson Jack Layford’s Friend by Anonymous How Peter Parley Laid a Ghost by Anonymous The Mysterious Visitor by Ellen Wood The Haunted Rock by W.W. Fenn The Lady’s Walk by Margaret Oliphant The Captain of the Pole-Star by Arthur Conan Doyle The Doll’s Ghost by F. Marion Crawford