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.
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 lohn Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestaion by A Clergyrnan" 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.
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 CLEGHORN GASKELL
The Squire"s Story
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
The Story of Mary Ancel
CHARLES DICKENS
The Story of the Bagman"s Uncle
To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt
JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
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
OSCAR WILDE
The Canterville Ghost
MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES
The Haunted Doll"s House
A School Story
PERCEVAL LANDON
Thurnley Abbey
HOWARD PEASE
In the Cliff Land of the Dane
SAKI (H.H.MUNRO)
Laura
AN APPENDIX OF THREE Taw GHOST STORIES
JAMES HOGG
The Story of Euphemia Howit
A CLERGYMAN
A Ghostly ManoCestation
Correspondence on "A Ghostly Manifestation"
EDMUND LENTHAL SWIFTE
Ghost in the Tower