num_pages: 292
description:  The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories culled from rare 19th-century periodicalsDuring the Victorian era it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors some well-known others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume. In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave and awaiting the demon that animated it? - John Berwick Harwood Horror: A True TaleSuddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Somethingwhat I knew notseemed near something nameless but unutterably awful. - Ada Buisson The Ghosts SummonsThere was no longer any question what she was or any thought of her being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions which had animated her while she lived. - Walter Scott The Tapestried Chamber
language: English
title: The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
publisher: Valancourt Books