The phantom coach
Subtitle: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian ghost stories
By: edited by Michael Sims
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781620408056
Subjects: American Ghost stories; English Ghost stories; American fiction; English fiction
Other titles: Connoisseur's collection of Victorian ghost stories; Victorian ghost stories
Description: "From the editor of The Dead Witness and Dracula's Guest, Michael Sims, expert on all things Victorian, presents  a collection of stories about humanity's oldest supernatural obsession: ghosts. The Phantom Coach, gathers memorable ghost tales from the Victorian era  by a surprising, often-legendary cast, from Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton to Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Arthur Conan Doyle. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295).
Table of contents: title: The old nurse's story  -- by Elizabeth Gaskell; title: The phantom coach  -- by Amelia B. Edwards; title: The trial for murder  -- by Charles Dickens; title: The captain of the "Pole-Star"  -- by Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Sir Edmund Orme  -- by Henry James; title: The yellow sign  -- by Robert W. Chambers; title: The library window  -- by Margaret Oliphant; title: The monkey's paw  -- by W. W. Jacobs; title: The Southwest chamber  -- by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: They  -- by Rudyard Kipling; title: The moonlit road  -- by Ambrose Bierce; title: August heat -- by W. F. Harvey.