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Description of the book - Victorian Ghost Stories An Oxford Anthology Oxford Paperbacks

"'I think it must have been two o'clock at least when I thought I heard a sound in that--that odious dark recess at the far end of the bedroom....Without at first a suspicion of anything supernatural, on a sudden I saw an old man, rather stout and square, in a sort of roan-red dressing-gown, and with a black cap on his head, moving stiffly and slowly in a diagonal direction, from the recess, across the floor of the bedroom, passing my bed at the foot, and entering the lumber-closet at the left. He had something under his arm; his head hung a little at one side; and, merciful God when I saw his face....'"
There's nothing like a good ghost story. And in Victorian Ghost Stories, Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert bring together thirty-five well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave. The Victorians excelled at the ghost story, it was as much a part of their literary culture as the realistic novel, and it was practiced by almost all the great writers of the age. Cox and Gilbert here provide samples from Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and Wilkie Collins, as well as such classic ghost-story specialists as M.R. James and J.S. Le Fanu (whose "Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," considered one of the best haunted-house story ever written, is excerpted above), plus one or two genuine rarities for the supernatural fiction enthusiast to savor. The editors also reveal the key role played by women in the growth of the genre, including stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs. Craik, Mrs. Henry Wood, Amelia B. Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, and many others. Finally, they offer an informative introduction, detailed source notes, and an extensive survey of ghost-story collections from 1850 to 1910.
Traditional in its forms, but energetically inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise. Every one is guaranteed to satisfy what Virginia Woolf called "that strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid."

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The old nurse's story by Elizabeth Gaskell
An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street by J.S. Le Fanu
The miniature by J.Y. Akerman
The last house in C-Street by Dinah Mulock
To be taken with a grain of salt by Charles Dickens
The Botathen ghost by R.S. Hawker
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth by Rhoda Broughton
The romance of certain old clothes by Henry James
Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse by Anonymous
Reality or delusion? by Mrs Henry Wood
Uncle Cornelius, his story by George MacDonald
The shadow of a shade by Tom Hood
At Chrighton Abbey by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
No living voice by Thomas Street Millington
Miss Jéromette and the clergyman by Wilkie Collins
The story of Clifford House by Anonymous
Was it an illusion? by Amelia B. Edwards
The open door by Charlotte Riddell
The captain of the "Pole-star" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The body-snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Charrington'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

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