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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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