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The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
| Author: | Tara Moore |
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Valancourt Books, 2016 |
| Series: | Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Book 1 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Ghosts |
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Synopsis
The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals.
During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume.
Contents:
- 7 - Introduction - essay by Tara Moore
- 13 - The Tapestried Chamber - (1828) - short story by Sir Walter Scott
- 28 - The Old Nurse's Story - (1852) - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
- 50 - Horror: A True Tale - (1861) - novelette by John Berwick Harwood
- 73 - Bring Me a Light! - (1861) - novelette by J. M. H.
- 98 - Old Hooker's Ghost - (1865) - novelette by Anonymous
- 123 - The Ghost's Summons - (1868) - short story by Ada Buisson
- 130 - Jack Layford's Friend: With an Account of How He Laid the Ghost - (1869) - novelette by L. N.
- 158 - How Peter Parley Laid a Ghost: A Story of Owl's Abbey - (1875) - short story by Anonymous
- 167 - A Mysterious Visitor - (1857) - novelette by Ellen Wood
- 189 - The Haunted Rock: A Legend of Port Guerron Cove - (1881) - short story by W. W. Fenn
- 203 - The Lady's Walk: A History of the Seen and Unseen - (1882) - novella by Margaret Oliphant
- 255 - The Captain of the Pole Star - (1883) - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 279 - The Doll's Ghost - (1896) - short story by F. Marion Crawford
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