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Post by dem bones on Jun 17, 2008 21:29:46 GMT
Rex Collings (ed) - Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics, 1996) Simon Marsden Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber Richard Harris Barham - The Spectre of Tappington R.S. Hawker - The Botathen Ghost Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart Elizabeth Gaskell - The Squire's Story William Makepeace Thackeray - The Story of Mary Ancel Charles Dickens - The Story of the Bagman's Uncle Charles Dickens - To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt J.S. le Fanu - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Steert J.S. le Fanu - Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand John Lang - Fisher's Ghost Wilkie Collins - The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach Miss Braddon - Eveline's Visitant Robert Louis Stevenson - Markheim Edith Nesbit - Man-Size in Marble The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde M.R. James - The Haunted Doll's House M.R. James - A School Story Perceval Landon - Thurnley Abbey Howard Pease - In the Cliff Land of the Dane Saki - Laura
An Appendix of Three True Ghost Stories
James Hogg - The Story of Euphemia Hewit A Clergyman - A Ghostly Manifestation Correspondence on 'A Ghostly Manifestation' Edmund Lenthal Swifte - Ghosts in the Tower Blurb: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked.
The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural.
There are stories from distant lands - Fisher's Ghost by John Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestation by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta.
In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 4, 2022 5:20:29 GMT
Some of the less over-anthologised content.
James Hogg - The Story of Euphemia Hewit: (Anecdotes of Ghosts & Apparitions, Fraser's Magazine, Jan. 1835). "The two young lovers were virtuous and lovely in their lives, and in their deaths they were but shortly divided."
David Hunter is agitated by his sweetheart's strange behaviour. Last night at their tryst, she insisted neither are long for this world and he must promise to pray for her. Now tonight he watches his Femmie glide into the vicarage. So that's it! She's having it off with Mr. Nevison, the handsome new incumbent! David storms in, demands of the maids that they fetch their master or he'll burn the place down around them! Mr. Nevison, unfazed, patiently explains that the only 'Euphemia Hewit' he knows of is the merchant's daughter of Thornhill - that's her! - ... whom he buried yesterday, but six paces to the back of the house.
A Clergyman - Ghostly Manifestation: (Murray's Magazine, July 1884). "We are killed with fright!" The clergyman recalls a sleep-depriving, servant scattering haunting in a house he took on an island out East. Three months earlier, said island's King had been murdered in the bedroom adjoining his own.
Edmund Lenthal Swifte (& various) - Ghosts in the Tower: (Notes & Queries, Sept. 1860). Swifte, 83-year's old at time of correspondence, a former keeper of the crown jewels, recalls an incident late at night in October 1817, when the Jewel House was infiltrated by a hovering cylindrical figure, "like a glass tube," and, of greater, tragic consequence, a bear-like entity which flowed beneath the door to attack a brave young sentry, who died not long after seeing it off with his bayonet. The Jewel House, it is claimed, was once the "doleful prison" of Anne Boleyn as she approached her date with the executioner's axe.
Howard Pease - In the Cliff Land of the Dane: (Border Ghost Stories, 1919). Skelton, on the outskirts of Redcar, N. Yorks. Demonically possessed by a Danish reiver, Red Tom, henpecked husband, village idiot, &Co., takes to disembowelling heifers with a battle-axe during midnight raids on neighbouring farms.
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Post by ripper on Aug 23, 2022 16:51:27 GMT
I think this was one of the first, maybe the actual first, Wordsworth Supernatural edition I bought, and most of the stories were new to me when I first read it. The three true accounts were nice additions. This collection was my first exposure to Landon's Thurnley Abbey. It gave me a chill then, and it still does today.
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