Classic Victorian And Edwardian Ghost Stories

Download or read book Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Rex Collings and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Rex Collings and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work comprises a collection of classic and lesser-known ghost stories from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It includes ghosts as fictional creations and as real apparitions. It includes contributions from all over the world.

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Richard Dalby and published by MetroBooks. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ghost stories that were popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Download or read book Ghosts by Gaslight written by Jack Dann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Madam Crowl's Ghost written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes tales which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals.