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Victorian Ghost Stories

Series: Ghost Stories
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Victorian Ghost Stories is a collection that transports readers to the eerie and atmospheric era of the Victorian age. The book presents a variety of chilling tales crafted by different authors, capturing the era's fascination with the supernatural. Each story is steeped in mystery, exploring themes of hauntings, spectres, and the unknown.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy chilling tales set in the eerie and atmospheric period of Victorian England. It offers a captivating look into the supernatural, filled with spine-tingling spectres and mysterious hauntings. Perfect for those who relish classic horror with a historical twist.

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Victorian Ghost Stories

Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Sabine Baring-Gould, Vernon Lee, Edith Nesbit and the master of all, M.R. James. A fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in.

The Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets and long dark lanes.

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The Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public, with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets, and long dark lanes.

Victorian Ghost Stories is a fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in.

Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, this collection features a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Ambrose Bierce, and the master of all, M.R. James.

Includes 10 black and white illustrations.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804172407

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 10 Line drawings, black and white

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Reggie Oliver

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 176g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Reggie Oliver (Introduction) is an actor, director, playwright, illustrator and award-winning author of fiction. Published work includes six plays, three novels, an illustrated children’s book The Hauntings at Tankerton Park (Zagava 2016), nine volumes of short stories, including Mrs Midnight (2011 winner of Children of the Night Award for best work of supernatural fiction), and the biography of the writer Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed (Bloomsbury 1998). His stories have appeared in over one hundred different anthologies and three β€˜selected’ editions of them have been published, the latest being Stages of Fear (Black Shuck Books 2020). His ninth volume of tales A Maze for the Minotaur was published by Tartarus Press in 2021.

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