The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three

✍ Scribed by Stern, Simon (editor)

• Book ID: 110493606
• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 156 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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 candlelight or the fireside became an annual tradition, a tradition Valancourt Books is pleased to continue with our series of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. This third volume contains twenty tales, most of them never before reprinted. They represent a mix of the diverse styles and themes common to Victorian ghost fiction and include works by once-popular authors like Ellen Wood and Charlotte Riddell as well as contributions from anonymous or wholly forgotten writers. This volume also features a new introduction by Prof. Simon Stern.