The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories
Author: | Richard Dalby |
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Robinson, 1995 |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
This collection gathers together forty of the best English and American ghost stories from the genre's golden age of 1839 to 1910, including works by Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ambrose Bierce.
Contents:
- Ghosts - (1887) - poem by Anonymous
- Schalken the Painter - (1851) - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- M. Anastius - (1857) - novelette by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (variant of M. Anastasius)
- The Lost Room - (1858) - short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
- No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman - (1927) - short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
- Haunted - (1867) - short story by Anonymous
- The Romance of Certain Old Clothes - (1868) - short story by Henry James
- John Granger - (1870) - short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Ghost in the Mill - (1870) - short story by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House - (1870) - short story by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Poor Pretty Bobby - (1872) - short story by Rhoda Broughton
- The New Pass - (1870) - short story by Amelia B. Edwards
- The White and the Black - (1867) - novelette by Alexandre Chatrian and Émile Erckmann?
- The Underground Ghost - (1864) - short story by John Berwick Harwood
- Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk - (1889) - short story by Frank Cowper
- Dog or Demon? - (1889) - short story by Theo Gift
- A Ghost from the Sea - short story by Dick Donovan
- A Set of Chessmen - (1890) - short story by Richard Marsh
- The Judge's House - (1891) - short story by Bram Stoker
- Pallinghurst Barrow - (1892) - short story by Grant Allen
- The Mystery of the Semi-Detached - (1893) - short story by E. Nesbit
- Sister Maddelena - (1895) - short story by Ralph Adams Cram
- The Trainer's Ghost - (1893) - short story by Lettice Galbraith
- An Original Revenge - (1897) - short story by W. C. Morrow
- Caulfield's Crime - (1892) - short story by Alice Perrin
- The Bridal Pair - (1902) - short story by Robert W. Chambers
- The Watcher - (1903) - short story by R. H. Benson
- The Spectre in the Cart - (1904) - short story by Thomas Nelson Page
- H. P. - (1904) - short story by Sabine Baring-Gould
- Yuki-Onna - (1904) - short story by Lafcadio Hearn
- The Ash-Tree - (1904) - short story by M. R. James
- The Story of the Green House, Wallington - [The Ghost Hunters - 1] - (1905) - short story by Allen Upward
- The Slype House - (1904) - short story by A. C. Benson
- A Ghost-Child - (1906) - short story by Bernard Capes
- The Bead Necklace - (1906) - short story by Alice Perrin
- A Dead Man's Bargain - (1906) - short story by Clive Pemberton
- The House That Was Lost - (1908) - short story by Tom Gallon
- The Jolly Corner - (1908) - novelette by Henry James
- The Doll's Ghost - (1896) - short story by F. Marion Crawford
- The Moonlit Road - (1907) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
- The Forbidden Floor - (1912) - short story by Alexander Harvey
- The Shadow - (1910) - short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Portent of the Shadow 1905)
- The Gateway of the Monster - [Carnacki (Hodgson)] - (1910) - novelette by William Hope Hodgson
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