Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories by Rex Collings. 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 new 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.

Contents

Introduction by Rex Collings
1. The Tapestried Chamber (1828) by Sir Walter Scott
2. The Spectre of Tappington (1837) by Richard Harris Barham
3. The Botathen Ghost (1867) by R. S. Hawker
4. The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Squire's Story (1853) by Mrs. Gaskell
6. The Story of Mary Ancel (1840) by William Makepeace Thackeray
7. The Story of the Bagman's Uncle (1837) by Charles Dickens
8. To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt (1865) by Charles Dickens
9. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (1853) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
10. Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
11. Fisher's Ghost (1853) by John Lang
12. The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed (1856) by Wilkie Collins
13. In the Cliff Land of the Dane (1919) by Howard Pease
14. The Phantom Coach (1864) by Amelia B. Edwards
15. Laura (1914) by Saki
16. Eveline's Visitant (1867) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [as by Miss Braddon]
17. Markheim (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson
18. Man-Size in Marble (1966) by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
19. The Canterville Ghost (1887) novelette by Oscar Wilde
20. The Haunted Doll's House by M. R. James
21. A School Story (1911) by M. R. James [as by Montague Rhodes James]
22. Thurnley Abbey (1907) by Perceval Landon
23. The Story of Euphemia Hewit (1835) by James Hogg
24. A Ghostly Manifestation (1884) by A Clergyman
25. Correspondence on 'A Ghostly Manifestation' (1884) by A Clergyman
26. Ghost in the Tower (1860) by Edmund Lenthal Swifte