Best Victorian Ghost Stories - April 2024

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (Annotated): Volume 1

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and American. Includes tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Riddell, Isabella Banks and Vernon Lee. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MDQSMLK
• ASIN: B01MDQSMLK
• Manufacturer: Wimbourne Books

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain their original power to surprise and unsettle.In Victorian Ghost Stories, the editors map out the dev... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0192804472
• ASIN: 0192804472
• ISBN: 0192804472
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

The Mesmerist: Hope Chest Time Travel Romance Series, Book 1 (Hope Chest Series)

A woman fleeing her unfaithful fiancé. A cuddly ghost seeking the manner of his death. A magical matchmaker determined to bring the two together, even across time.When dog trainer Gina Charles flees her unfaithful fiancé, she ends up at a hotel room with another occupant—a ghost with compelling dark eyes who cuddles up to her in the middle of the night.Ghostly mesmerist Drake Manton doesn’t remember how he died, and insists Gina help him learn the manner of his death so he can move on or he’ll haunt her forever.Gina’s investigation leads her to the burned-out Chesterfield hotel, wher... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00MYRE9ZY
• ASIN: B00MYRE9ZY
• Manufacturer: Parker Hayden Media

The Last Necromancer (The Ministry Of Curiosities Book 1)

A waif, her abductor and a twist you won't see coming.For five years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit since she first discovered she could do so five years ago. That time, her father banished her. This time, she brings even more trouble upon herself.People are now hunting Charlie all over London, but only one man succeeds in capturing her.Lincoln Fitzroy is the mysterious head of a secret organization on the trail of a madman who needs a nec... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00ZMVECQA
• ASIN: B00ZMVECQA

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal, clean water, sewers-necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action-and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. In a triumph of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594482691
• ASIN: 1594482691
• ISBN: 1594482691
• Brand: Johnson, Steven
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

The Signalman and Other Horrors: The Best Victorian Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (Oldstyle Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, & Hauntings) (Volume 2)

Filled with fresh illustrations and illuminating commentary on each story, this collection of Dickens' best ghost stories is a unique and fascinating study of Britain's first great supernatural master. The defining writer of the Victorian Age, Charles Dickens rattled Western society with his dauntless progressivism and his acidic social realism. His ghost stories, too, left a deep impression on the collective imagination of his readers. Often darkly humorous, sometimes thoughtfully allegorical, at times psychologically complex, and in the best cases existentially disturbing, Dickens’ specter... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1515105210
• ASIN: 1515105210
• ISBN: 1515105210
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories

A spine-tingling new collection of the best Victorian ghost stories-as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula's Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity's oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry Ja... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00LPMGXYE
• ASIN: B00LPMGXYE
• Manufacturer: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been sh... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07BKRGQTY
• ASIN: B07BKRGQTY
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Great Expectations

• ASIN: B00RWJPSHW
• ASIN: B00RWJPSHW
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (Annotated): Volume 5

Contains detailed biographies of all authorsContains stories not previously anthologizedIncludes a scholarly introduction by author Alastair GunnTwenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the fifth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 5 in the series spans the years 1872 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors; British, French and American. Includes tales by Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. Readers new to this... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0752RWLRD
• ASIN: B0752RWLRD
• Manufacturer: Wimbourne Books

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)

Read the #1 New York Times best-selling series before it continues in A Map of Days.   Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs   A mysterious island.

 An abandoned orphanage.

 A strange collection of very curious photographs.
 It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he disc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594746036
• ASIN: 1594746036
• ISBN: 9781594746031
• Brand: Quirk Books
• Manufacturer: Quirk Books

A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions)

In October 1843, Charles Dickens ― heavily in debt and obligated to his publisher ― began work on a book to help supplement his family's meager income. That volume, A Christmas Carol, has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths, this perennial favorite continues to delight new readers and rekindle thoughts of charity and goodwill.With its characters exhibiting many qualities ― as well as failures ― often ascribed to Dickens himself, the imaginative and entertaining tale re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486268659
• UPC: 800759268658
• ASIN: 0486268659
• ISBN: 0486268659
• Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

The Big Book of Ghost Stories

A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to p... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307474496
• ASIN: 0307474496
• ISBN: 0307474496
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Nocturne for a Widow (Sybil Ingram Victorian Mysteries Book 1)

“Delightful.” --InD'Tale magazineThe ghost may be the least of her problems... Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy is Brooke House, a Gothic revival manor in the wilds of the Hudson River Valley. However, the eerie mansion comes with two tenants. One is a hostile ghost. The second, and far worse, is former violinist Roderick Brooke--the most insolent, dangerous, maddeningly gorgeous man she's ever met. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00QB38G5G
• ASIN: B00QB38G5G

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (Tales of Mystery & 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 John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, S... [Read More]

• ASIN: 184022066X
• ASIN: 184022066X
• ISBN: 184022066X
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for

• UPC: 512291478
• Rating: 5.0

Victorian Ghost Stories

The Victorian era was a golden age of the paranormal. Famous writers, such as Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe, created fantastic tales that remain the models for contemporary ghost stories. As the interest in

• UPC: 53614499
• Rating: 4.0

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood - eBook

"Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood" is a collection of supernatural stories by one of the greatest writers of such stories to have ever lived. This collection contains the story, "Ancient Sorceries", which is the

• UPC: 303008876
• Rating: 4.0

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

Thirteen stories, including "The Willows" -- acclaimed by Lovecraft as the finest supernatural story ever written -- "The Wendigo," "Ancient Sorceries," and others. Includes an introduction by E. F.

• UPC: 25672804
• Rating: 4.0

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories

The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex

• UPC: 691941245
• Rating: 3.5

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

In "Victorian Ghost Stories, " the editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the 20th century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction

• UPC: 26658341
• Rating: 3.5

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood - eBook

A woman of snow . . . a midnight caller keeping his promise . . . forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic . . . enchanted houses . . . these are the beings

• UPC: 792497078
• Rating: 4.0

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

"Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood" is a collection of supernatural stories by one of the greatest writers of such stories to have ever lived. This collection contains the story, "Ancient Sorceries," which is the

• UPC: 14703473
• Rating: 4.0

Ghosts of Old Louisville : True Stories of Hauntings in America's Largest Victorian Neighborhood

Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, and

• UPC: 55746478
• Rating: 2.0

The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849 : A Classic Ghost Anthology

The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849

• UPC: 53627685
• Rating: 4.0

The Best Victorian Ghost Stories: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of Murder, Mys

• UPC: 361946232920
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 21 USD

The Best Victorian Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens: Illustrated and Introduced

• UPC: 391778626322
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 18 USD

The Signalman and Other Horrors: The Best Victorian Ghost Stories of Charles Dic

• UPC: 382004098730
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 17 USD

Phantom Coach : A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories

• UPC: 312779318374
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 10 USD

Phantom Coach : A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories

• UPC: 303501214691
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 14 GBP

Phantom Coach : A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories

• UPC: 303501328542
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 18 EUR

Phantom Coach : A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories

• UPC: 223464484156
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 10 USD