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Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology - soft cover
Description : 08 Jun, 2023
------Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology - By MICHAEL COX, ; R. A. GILBERT, (ED) - E. NESBIT, M. R. JAMES, W. W. JACOBS, ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, MARY E. WILKINS, CHARLOTTE RIDDELL, WILKIE COLLINS, GEORGE MACDONALD, HENRY JAMES, R. S. HAWKER, J. S. LE FANU, ELIZABETH GASKELL, RHODA BROUGHTON, R. H. BENSON. Large soft cover, clean tight and square, flat uncreased spine, no names, (xx) 497 pages, Near Fine condition. "This collection is aimed at lovers of traditional ghost stories: here are 35 well-wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave." Contents include: Intro by Michael Cox & R. A. Gilbert / The Story of the Rippling Train by Mary Louisa Molesworth / At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling / 'To Let' by B. M. Croker / John Cahrrington's Wedding by E. Nesbit / The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly by Rosa Mulholland / The Man of Science by Jerome K. Jerome / Canon Alberic's Scrap-book by M. R. James / Jerry Bundler by W. W. Jacobs / An Eddy on the Floor by Bernard Capes / The Tomb of Sarah by F. G Loring / The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain / The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins / Father Macclesfield's Tale by R. H. Benson / Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon / The Kit-bag by Algernon Blackwood / The Body-Snatcher by R. L. Stevenson / The Captain of the 'Pole-star' by Sir Arthur Connan Doyle / The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell / Was it an Illustion? by Amelia B. Edwards / The Story of Clifford House by Anon. / Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins / No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington / At Chrighton Abbey by Mary Elizabeth Braddon / The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood / Uncle Cornelius His Story by George MacDonald / Reality or Delusion? by Mrs Henry Wood / Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse by Anon. / The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James / The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth by Rhoda Broughton / The Botathen Ghost by R. S. Hawker / To be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens / The Last House in C---- Street by Dinah Mulock (Mrs. Craik) / The Miniature by J. Y. Akerman / An Account of Some Strange Disturbance in Aungier Street by J. S. Le Fanu / The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell / Sources / Select Chronological Conspectus of Ghost Stories, 1840-1910. Check out the scans. . 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Cover illustration: "A Glimpse of the Lake thro' the Copse, Roundhay Park" 1872, by Atkinson Grimshaw,. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". VGS8867OA
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