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Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
| Alternate Title: | The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories |
| Author: | Michael Cox R. A. Gilbert |
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Oxford University Press, 1991 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
There's nothing like a good ghost story. And in Victorian Ghost Stories, Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert bring together thirty-five well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave.
The Victorians excelled at the ghost story, it was as much a part of their literary culture as the realistic novel, and it was practiced by almost all the great writers of the age. Cox and Gilbert here provide samples from Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and Wilkie Collins, as well as such classic ghost-story specialists as M.R. James and J.S. Le Fanu (whose "Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," considered one of the best haunted-house story ever written, is excerpted above), plus one or two genuine rarities for the supernatural fiction enthusiast to savor.
The editors also reveal the key role played by women in the growth of the genre, including stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs. Craik, Mrs. Henry Wood, Amelia B. Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, and many others.
Finally, they offer an informative introduction, detailed source notes, and an extensive survey of ghost-story collections from 1850 to 1910. Traditional in its forms, but energetically inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise. Every one is guaranteed to satisfy what Virginia Woolf called "that strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid."
Contents:
- ix - Introduction (Victorian Ghost Stories) - essay by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert
- 1 - The Old Nurse's Story - (1935) - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
- 19 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street - (1964) - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
- 37 - The Miniature - (1853) - short story by John Yonge Akerman [as by J. Y. Akerman]
- 44 - The Last House in C- Street - (1856) - short story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [as by Dinah Mulock]
- 55 - To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt - (1865) - short story by Charles Dickens
- 65 - The Botathen Ghost - (1867) - short story by R. S. Hawker
- 74 - The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth - (1868) - short story by Rhoda Broughton
- 83 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes - (1868) - short story by Henry James
- 100 - Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse - short fiction by uncredited [as by Anonymous]
- 115 - Reality or Delusion? - [Johnny Ludlow] - (1868) - short story by Mrs. Henry Wood
- 130 - Uncle Cornelius His Story - (1864) - short story by George MacDonald (variant of Uncle Cornelius, His Story 1869)
- 150 - The Shadow of a Shade - (1869) - short story by Tom Hood
- 163 - At Chrighton Abbey - (1871) - novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- 190 - No Living Voice - (1872) - short story by Thomas Street Millington
- 198 - Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman - (1875) - short story by Wilkie Collins
- 218 - The Story of Clifford House - (1878) - short fiction by Anonymous
- 239 - Was it an Illusion?: A Parson's Story - short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of Was It an Illusion? 1881)
- 256 - The Open Door - (1882) - novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
- 283 - The Captain of the "Pole-Star" - (1971) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
- 303 - The Body-Snatcher - (1895) - short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
- 319 - The Story of the Rippling Train - (1887) - short story by Mary Louisa Molesworth
- 328 - At the End of the Passage - (1890) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
- 346 - "To Let" - (1890) - short story by B. M. Croker
- 360 - John Charrington's Wedding - (1891) - short story by E. Nesbit
- 367 - The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly - (1891) - short story by Rosa Mulholland
- 379 - The Man of Science - (1892) - short story by Jerome K. Jerome (variant of A Ghost Story)
- 385 - Canon Alberic's Scrapbook - (1895) - short story by M. R. James
- 396 - Jerry Bundler - (1897) - short story by W. W. Jacobs
- 403 - An Eddy on the Floor - (1899) - novella by Bernard Capes
- 431 - The Tomb of Sarah - (1900) - short story by F. G. Loring
- 442 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit - (1901) - short story by Barry Pain
- 445 - The Shadows on the Wall - (1903) - short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
- 459 - Father Macclesfield's Tale - (1907) - short story by R. H. Benson
- 466 - Thurnley Abbey - (1907) - short story by Perceval Landon
- 480 - The Kit-Bag - (1908) - short story by Algernon Blackwood
- 490 - Sources (Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology) - essay by uncredited
- 493 - Select Chronological Conspectus of Ghost Stories: 1840-1910 (Victorian Ghost Stories) - essay by uncredited
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