num_pages: 176
description: A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard.A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship.A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard butsometimes at night it screams. . . .This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind or by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre each story is illustrated with exquisitely eerie artwork in this special gift edition featuring an embossed textured case and a ribbon marker.Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad - M.R. JamesThe Old Nurse's Story - Elizabeth GaskellThe Signalman - Charles DickensThe Body-Snatcher - Robert Louis StevensonThe Captain of the Pole-Star - Arthur Conan DoyleThe Phantom Coach - Amelia B. EdwardsThe Screaming Skull - Francis Marion Crawford
language: English
title: Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age
publisher: Chronicle Books