The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Two

Fifteen more chilling tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals

Following the popularity 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. This second volume of Victorian Christmas ghost stories contains fifteen tales, most of which have never been reprinted. They represent a mix of the diverse styles and themes common to Victorian ghost fiction and include works by once-popular authors like Grant Allen and Eliza Lynn Linton as well as contributions from anonymous or wholly forgotten writers. This volume also features a new introduction by Prof. Allen Grove.

  Contents

Introduction by Allen Grove
1. A Real Country Ghost Story (1846) by Albert Smith
2. The Ghost of the Treasure-Chamber (1886) by Emily Arnold
3. Number Two, Melrose Square (1879) by Theo Gift
4. The Weird Violin (1893) by Anonymous
5. Walsham Grange: A Real Ghost Story (1885) by E. Morant Cox
6. Haunted! (1885) by Coulson Kernahan
7. The Steel Mirror: A Christmas Dream (1867) by W. W. Fenn
8. White Satin (1875) by Anonymous
9. Nicodemus (1867) by Alfred Henry Forrester
10. Wolverden Tower (1896) novelette by Grant Allen
11. Christmas Eve at Beach House (1870) by Eliza Lynn Linton
12. The Necromancer, or Ghost versus Gramarye (1842) by Isabella F. Romer
13. The Veiled Portrait (1874) by Grant Allen
14. The Ghost Chamber (1853) by Anonymous
15. A Terrible Retribution; or, Squire Orton's Ghost (1871) by A. S.