A selection of thirteen chilling ghost stories from the greatest Victorian writers.
The ghost story was part of the Victoriansâ fascination with the supernatural and the desire to establish a link with the past. In an age when life could be threatened by incidental dangers and death was ever present, it could be read, in the words of Peter Ackroyd, as a âbridge of light between the living and the dead⌠a continuity albeit of a spectral kindâ.
The thirteen supernatural stories chosen for this special edition are amongst the best ever written, and include classics from Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Edith Wharton.
Classic Victorian Ghost Stories - Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu & Edith Wharton
By Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu & Edith Wharton
A selection of thirteen chilling ghost stories from the greatest Victorian writers.
The ghost story was part of the Victoriansâ fascination with the supernatural and the desire to establish a link with the past. In an age when life could be threatened by incidental dangers and death was ever present, it could be read, in the words of Peter Ackroyd, as a âbridge of light between the living and the dead⌠a continuity albeit of a spectral kindâ.
The thirteen supernatural stories chosen for this special edition are amongst the best ever written, and include classics from Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Edith Wharton.
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