Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
By (Author) Rex Collings
Series edited by David Stuart Davies
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
5th January 2008
1st January 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Anthologies: general
823.087330808
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 16mm
193g
***Includes Fisher's Ghost from Campbelltown, NSW*** 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 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, 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.