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Post by ripper on Jun 19, 2018 11:33:27 GMT
If anyone enjoys Victorian era ghost stories, I noticed a series of Kindle ebooks on Amazon that may be of interest. They are the "Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories" and so far there are 9 volumes in the series. Each is edited by Alastair Gunn, with author notes, introduction, and 20 stories per volume. Some also have a bonus article reprinted from a periodical. There are some well-known tales, but also quite a few that are unknown--or at least they are to me. All volumes are currently 99p each, except volume 1, which for some reason is £1.99.
Wimbourne are also offering collections from authors like Lettice Galbraith, Wilhemina FitzClarence and Mary E. Penn, all edited by Alastair Gunn, though they are currently all £2+ per volume.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 14, 2022 8:22:07 GMT
At time of writing, a staggering twenty-one volumes of this series are available for Kindle & Co, the first ten of which have also been issued in paperback, more than enough to be getting on with. TOC as follows. All going well, will be picking on two sample volumes over coming days - but can you guess which ones? Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (2018) "Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors." Alastair Gunn - Introduction.
Elizabeth Gaskell - The Old Nurse’s Story
Dinah Maria Craik - The Last House in C– Street
Catherine Ann Crowe - My Friend’s Story
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Cold Embrace
Amelia B. Edwards - How The Third Floor Knew The Potteries
Rosa Mulholland - The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly
Isabella Banks - Wraith-Haunted
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House
Rhoda Broughton - The Man With the Nose
Ellen Wood - Seen In The Moonlight
Margaret Oliphant - The Secret Chamber
Charlotte Riddell - The Open Door
Mary E. Penn - In The Dark
Mary Louisa Molesworth - The Story of the Rippling Train
Vernon Lee - A Wicked Voice
Lettice Galbraith - The Trainer’s Ghost
Louisa Baldwin - How He Left The Hotel
Katharine Tynan - The Picture On The Wall
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren - The Woodley Lane Ghost
Lilian Giffen - The Ghost of the Belle-Alliance PlantationAlastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 (2018) "..... Spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas." Alastair Gunn - Introduction.
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Tree
Charles Dickens - The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
William D. O’Connor - The Ghost: A Christmas Story
James Hain Friswell - The Oxford Ghost
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - Maese Pérez, the Organist
Amelia B. Edwards - The North Mail
Louisa May Alcott - The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
Anonymous - Catherine’s Quest
Ada Buisson - The Ghost’s Summons
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - At Chrighton Abbey
Leonard Kip -The Ghosts at Grantley
Frank Cowper - Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk
John Kendrick Bangs - The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
Letitia McClintock - Unexplained
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett - A Gruesome Joke
H. B. Marriott Watson - The Brazen Cross
Louisa Baldwin - The Real and the Counterfeit
Grant Allen - Wolverden Tower
Bernard Capes - The Vanishing House
Frank R. Stockton - The Great Staircase at Landover HallAlastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 3 (2018) "..... contains stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1839 and 1896." Alastair Gunn - Introduction.
Anonymous - The Deaf and Dumb Girl
Anonymous - The Picture Bedroom
Anonymous - It Is No Fiction
Anonymous - Mabel
Anonymous - The Bright Room of Cranmore
Anonymous - Fisher’s Ghost
Anonymous - The Ghost at Heatherbell Abbey
Anonymous - The Tale of a Gas-light Ghost
Anonymous- Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse
Anonymous - Haunted
Anonymous - The Ghost at Laburnum Villa
Anonymous - The Sergeant’s Ghost Story
Anonymous - The Bryansfort Spectre
Anonymous - Twelve O’clock, Noon
Anonymous - The Story of Clifford House
Anonymous - The Ghost in the Bank of England
Anonymous - The Carved Mantelpiece of Granton Hall
Anonymous - The Invisible Hand
Anonymous - The Old Lady in Black
Anonymous - Seen By the CoppiceAlastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 4 (2019) ".... spans the years 1835 to 1869." Alaistair Gunn - Introduction
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Gray Champion
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
Washington Irving - Guests from Gibbet-Island
William Mudford - Ghost Gossips at Blakesley House
Thomas Hood - The Grimsby Ghost
John Yonge Akerman - The Miniature
Bayle St. John - The Legend of the Weeping Chamber
Dudley Costello - The Ghost of Pit Pond
Fitz-James O’Brien - The Pot of Tulips
Charles Dickens - The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber
George John Whyte-Melville - The Yellow Gown
James Hain Friswell - The Ghost’s Forfeits
Edward Bulwer-Lytton - The Haunted and the Haunters
Thomas Wilkinson Speight - Experiences of Farthing Lodge
John Berwick Harwood - The Painted Room at Blackston Manor
Thomas Quiller Couch - The Spectral Coach of Blackadon
Robert Stephen Hawker - The Botathen Ghost
George Manville Fenn - The Ghosts at the Grange
Tom Hood - The Shadow of a Shade
George MacDonald - Uncle Cornelius, His Story Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 5 (2019) "spans the years 1872 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors." Alaistair Gunn - Introduction
Thomas Street Millington - No Living Voice
Walter Besant & James Rice - Lady Kitty
Henry James - The Ghostly Rental
Frank Richard Stockton - The Transferred Ghost
Guy de Maupassant - Apparition
Arthur Conan Doyle - Selecting a Ghost
Edward Masey - No. 11 Welham Square
Andrew Lang - The House of Strange Stories
Rudyard Kipling - By Word of Mouth
Richard Marsh - A Set of Chessmen
Jerome K. Jerome - The Haunted Mill
Hume Nisbet - The Haunted Station
Grant Allen - Pallinghurst Barrow
Robert Barr - The Man Who Was Not on the Passenger List
Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Saving of a Soul
Ralph Adams Cram - No 252. Rue M. le Prince
H. G. Wells - The Red Room
Sabine Baring-Gould - Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story
William Chambers Morrow - The Haunted Burglar
Barry Pain - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 6 (2020) "... spans the years 1854 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors." Alaistair Gunn - Introduction
Eliza Lynn Linton - The Sixth Poor Traveller
Catherine Crowe - The Italian’s Story
Jane Margaret Hooper - Bring Me a Light!
Amelia B. Edwards - The Eleventh of March
Frances Browne - The Haunted Grange
Rosa Mulholland - The Ghost At The Rath
Rhoda Broughton - The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
Ellen Wood - Reality, or Delusion?
Mary Louisa Molesworth - Lady Farquar’s Old Lady
Isabella Banks - The Pride of the Corbyns
Mary E. Penn - At Ravenholme Junction
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Shadow In the Corner
Margaret Oliphant - The Open Door
Florence Marryat - The Invisible Tenants of Rushmere
Charlotte Riddell - The Last of Squire Ennismore
Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose
Darley Dale - The Prior’s Cell: A Ghost Story
Louisa Baldwin - The Shadow On the Blind
Wilhelmina FitzClarence - The Tyburn Ghost
Alice Perrin - The Summoning of Arnold Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 7 (2020) "... spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas." Alaistair Gunn - Introduction
Miles Gerald Keon - The Wedding-Ring
James Hain Friswell - All Alone on Christmas Day
Hesba Stretton - The Ghost in the Clock Room
George Augustus Sala - The Ghost in the Double Room
Anne Sarah Bushby - The Spectre’s Visit
Sabine Baring-Gould - Glámr
Mark Lemon - The Ghost Detective
Charlotte Riddell - Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning
Frances Cashel Hoey - The Brown Lady
William Wilthew Fenn - The Phantom Flash
Clara Venn - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor-House
Florence Marryat - The Ghost of Charlotte Cray
F. Anstey - The Curse of the Catafalques
Bithia Mary Croker - Number Ninety
Mark Rutherford - A Mysterious Portrait
J. E. P. Muddock - The Spectre of Barrochan
Hume Nisbet - The Old Portrait
Frank Richard Stockton - Old Applejoy's Ghost
W. W. Jacobs - Jerry Bundler
John Kendrick Bangs - Bills, M.D Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 8 (2020) " ... stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1838 and 1895." Alaistair Gunn - Introduction
Anonymous - The Silver Lady
Anonymous) – The Haunted Brig
Anonymous– A Night in a Haunted House
Anonymous – The Story of an Organ
Anonymous – The Sword of Mauley
Anonymous – The Miser’s Curse
Anonymous – The Alibi
Anonymous – Bolden Tower
Anonymous – Falconest
Anonymous – The Spirit’s Whisper
Anonymous – Doctor Feversham’s Story
Anonymous – The Ghost of Stanton Hall
Anonymous – A Spirit’s Tale; or Aunt Ella’s Story
Anonymous – Le Vert Galant
Anonymous – The Bridal of La Guillotiere
Anonymous – The Ghost of Aldrum Hall
Anonymous – Not Yet Solved
Anonymous – The Château de Keronel
Anonymous – The Weird Violin
Anonymous – The Last Saturday in AugustAlastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 9 (2021) " ... stories published between 1841 and 1899." Alaistair Gunn - Introduction
William Mudford - Ghost Gossips at Blakesley House
John Yonge Akerman - George Child’s Second Love
Mary Ann Bird - The Old House in Chancery
Elizabeth Gaskell - The Poor Clare
Catherine Crowe - The Dutch Officer’s Story
Emerson Bennett - The Haunted House
Amelia B. Edwards - The Four-fifteen Express
Henry James - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
John William De Forest - The Drummer Ghost
John Gladwyn Jebb -The Haunted Enghenio
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Her Last Appearance
William Wilthew Fenn - The Hand on the Latch
Isabella Banks - The White Woman of Slaith
G. L. Worrall - On Board the “Eagle”
Wilkie Collins - Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
F. Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth
Lettice Galbraith - “The Case of Lady Lukestan”
M. R. James - Lost Hearts
Wilhelmina FitzClarence - The Crimson Portrait
J. E. P. Muddock - The Spectre of Rislip Abbey Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 10 (2021) " .... spans the years 1838 to 1898." Alaistair Gunn - Introduction
J. Sheridan Le Fanu - The Ghost and the Bone-setter
William Mudford - The Banquet-Hall of Death
Mary Ann Bird - A Tale Told by the Fireside
Ellen Wood - A Mysterious Visitor
Margaret Verne - The Haunted House
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Eveline’s Visitant
Samuel Williams - Hu Hirwan’s Ghost
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Ghost in the Mill
Amelia B. Edwards - Sister Johanna’s Story
James Grant - The Veiled Portrait
Frederick George Lee - The Beresford Apparition
Brander Matthews - The Rival Ghosts
Edith Nesbit - The Ebony Frame
Thomas Nelson Page - Her Great-Grandmother’s Ghost
William Canton - The Invisible Playmate
Hume Nisbet - The Phantom Model
William Waldorf Astor - The Ghosts of Austerlitz
Margaret Oliphant - The Library Window
Emma Frances Dawson - A Sworn Statement
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Post by andydecker on Feb 14, 2022 8:43:42 GMT
This looks fabulous. Even a decent packaging. looks like something Penguin would have done in the classy old days. I didn't count them but 400 stories? That's a lot.
If I had to guess, 3 and 8?
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Post by humgoo on Feb 14, 2022 8:48:02 GMT
All going well, will be picking on two sample volumes over coming days - but can you guess which ones? Am certainly interested in our good friend Anonymous' masterpieces. Keep us posted! |
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Post by dem bones on Feb 14, 2022 9:27:08 GMT
This looks fabulous. Even a decent packaging. looks like something Penguin would have done in the classy old days. I didn't count them but 400 stories? That's a lot. If I had to guess, 3 and 8?
Am certainly interested in our good friend Anonymous' masterpieces. Keep us posted! You two know me too well. Actually, it's four and eight. It was going to be three, but four had a few quid off and approx half the stories are new to me. The books are indeed attractive and the introductions - if those read are typical - informative and very worthy of the name. Typically, those volumes overburdened with anthology staples - the first pair are essentially greatest hits compilations - include at least one or two obscurities to entice the must-collect-every-ghost-story dependent. |
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Post by dem bones on Oct 23, 2022 10:37:09 GMT
Series has now reached Vol 22 in ebook. Vols 1 -12 are also available in paperback.
Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The 11th Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (2022)
"Volume 11 in the series spans the years 1846 to 1901 and includes stories from solely American female authors."
Alastair Gunn - Introduction [incorporates anonymous essay, Ghost Stories, from Flag of Our Union, March 1861].
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet - The Haunted House in Georgia
Nancy Thorning Munroe - The Haunted House
Rose Terry Cooke - My Visitation
Jane Goodwin Austin - The Deserted Hut: A Ghost Story
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward - Kentucky's Ghost
Harriet Prescott Spofford - The Strange Passengers
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story
Rebecca Harding Davis - The Story of a Shadow
Clara Florida Guernsey - The Walking Boy
Clara Le Clerc - The Haunted House by the Mill: A Texas Story
Lucretia Peabody Hale - The American Ghost
Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton - On the Stroke of the Clock
Sarah Orne Jewett - The Gray Man
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Giant Wistaria
Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis - The Soul of Rose Dédé
Willa Sibert Cather - The Fear that Walks by Noonday
Annie Trumbull Slosson - A Transient
Elia Wilkinson Peattie - The Shape of Fear
Marie van Vorst - The Path of the Storm
Elizabeth Garver Jordan - The Ordeal of Sister Cuthbert
Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The 12th Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (2022)
"Volume 12 in the series spans the years 1837 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas."
Alastair Gunn - Introduction [incorporates anonymous essay, Family Ghosts, from Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading, Jan 1868].
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Richard Harris Barham - The Spectre of Tappington
Mark Lemon - The Old Bell-Ringer's Story
James Hain Friswell - The Dead Man's Story
John Berwick Harwood - Horror: A True Tale
William Wilthew Fenn - The Steel Mirror: A Christmas Dream
George Manville Fem - Haunted by Spirits
Charlotte Riddell - A Strange Christmas Game
Annie Hall Thomas - How We Parted
Eliza Lynn Linton - Christmas Eve at Beach House
Charles Henry Ross - A Three-Cornered Ghost
Theo Gift - Number Two, Melrose Square
Mary E. Penn - Old Vanderhaven's Will
Charlotte Riddell - The Old House in Vauxhall Walk
Robert Louis Stevenson - Markheim
James Matthew Barrie - The Ghost of Christmas Eve
Jerome K. Jerome - The Ghost of the Blue Chamber
John Kendrick Bangs - Thurlow's Christmas Story
Ivy Hooper - The Baron's Room
Elia Wilkinson Peattie - Their Dear Little Ghost
Marie Corelli - The Ghost in the Sedan Chair
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Post by toff on Oct 25, 2022 23:30:01 GMT
Christmas volumes: 2, 7, 12, 16, 19
Christmas stories in non-Christmas volumes: Gaskell Elizabeth Old Nurse's Story 1852 WBVGS 1 Anonymous Story of Clifford House 1878 WBVGS 3 Speight Thomas Wilkinson Experiences of Farthing Lodge 1864 WBVGS 4 Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh 1838 WBVGS 4 Mudford William Ghost Gossips at Blakesley House 1841 WBVGS 4 Costello Dudley Ghost of Pit Pond 1854 WBVGS 4 Friswell James Hain Ghost’s Forfeits 1858 WBVGS 4 Harwood John Berwick Painted Room at Blackston Manor 1864 WBVGS 4 MacDonald George MacDonald Uncle Cornelius, His Story 1869 WBVGS 4 Browne Frances Haunted Grange 1864 WBVGS 6 Marryat Florence Invisible Tenants of Rushmere 1883 WBVGS 6 Molesworth Mary Louisa Lady Farquar's Old Lady 1873 WBVGS 6 Wood Ellen Wood Reality, or Delusion? 1868 WBVGS 6 Baldwin Louisa Shadow On the Blind 1894 WBVGS 6 Anonymous Château de Keronel 1887 WBVGS 8 Anonymous Spirit’s Tale; or Aunt Ella’s Story 1868 WBVGS 8 Edwards Amelia Blandford Four-fifteen Express 1867 WBVGS 9 James Henry Romance of Certain Old Clothes 1868 WBVGS 9 Edwards Amelia Blandford Sister Johanna’s Story 1872 WBVGS 10 Dawson Emma Frances Sworn Statement 1897 WBVGS 10 Anonymous Mrs. Brown’s Ghost Story 1868 WBVGS 13 Dickens Charles No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman 1866 WBVGS 14 Anonymous Death-Seer 1844 WBVGS 18 |
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Post by dem bones on Jun 19, 2023 11:28:27 GMT
Now available in paperback;
Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The 13th Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (May, 2023)
"Volume 13 in the series contains ghost stories published Anonymously in America and Britain between 1841 and 1900."
Alastair Gunn - Introduction [incorporates Anonymous essay, On the Threatened Extinction of Ghosts, from Sharp's London Magazine, Jan 1856].
Anonymous - The Heart and the Key: A Tale of the Fens
Anonymous - Haunted
Anonymous - The Demon Spectre: A True Ghost Story of Virginia
Anonymous - Midnight at Marshland Grange
Anonymous - Mrs. M.
Anonymous - "Tremewen Grange"
Anonymous - An American Ghost
Anonymous - Mrs. Brown's Ghost Story
Anonymous - The Phantom Fourth
Anonymous - The Dead Sister
Anonymous - The Tregethan's Curse; or, the Weird Woman
Anonymous - An Old Woman's Story
Anonymous - The Haunted Mill
Anonymous - Stronger Than Death
Anonymous - An Extra Passenger
Anonymous - Faithful Unto Death
Anonymous - My Uncle's Clock
Anonymous - The Cupboard at Wyncope Manor
Anonymous - A Ghostly Adventure on Exmoor
Anonymous - The Phantom Picture: A Complete Tale
Alastair Gunn [ed.] - The 14th Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (May, 2023)
"Volume 14 in the series contains stories published in the first half of the Victorian age (1837 - 1869)."
Alastair Gunn - Introduction [incorporates Anonymous essay, The Supernatural in Fiction, from The Sheffield Independent, 31 March 1896].
Abraham Elder - The Blind Ghost-Seer
William Henry Farn - The Souls of the Drowned: A Legend of the Sea
Dudley Costello - The Haunted House in Yorkshire
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The Watcher
Anna Maria Hall - Le Femme Noir
William Henry Wills - The Ghost of the Late Mr. James Barber: A Yarn Ashore
Ellen Wood - The Punishment of Gina Montani
Mary Ann Bird - The Lumber Room
Dinah Maria Mulock - M. Anastasius
William Fulford - A Night in a Cathedral
Anne Sarah Bushby - The Haunted Ship
Ada Trevanion - A Ghost Story
George MacDonald - The Lady in the Mirror
Eliza Craven Green - The Girl with the Golden Hair
George Augustus Sala - The Ghost of Gashleigh Court
Frances Browne - The Story of the House in Garden Reach
John Berwick Harwood - The Underground Ghost
Frances Power Cobbe - The Spectral Rout
Charles Dickens - No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Scene-Painter's Wife
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