The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Edward Wagenknecht
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 593
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Author: Edward Wagenknecht
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 593
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 593
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. S. Mott
Publisher: Ghost House Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781894877404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGather 'round a blazing fire and break out these spooky and often heartwarming tales from ghost storyspinner A.S. Mott: ยท three ghost hunters who brave Wooster Mansion become trapped in a ghostly struggle between a murdered father and his children
Author: FIRESIDE GHOST STORIES.
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 127
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-09-27
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781977752819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhost stories at Christmas can be traced back to pagan times - Yule and Saturnalia - when the Winter Solstice (like Hallowe'en and Wulpurgis Night) was viewed as a moment in space and time where the thinness of the boundaries between the supernatural and human worlds became remarkably plastic, and all manner of strange things were said to be seen and heard in the winter air. while we no longer have the old stories spoken in the old homes around the old fires by the old myth-keepers, let us sit around and enjoy some of the stories that would have sent shivers up the great-great-grandchildren of those little ones sitting around the Yule fire - the supernatural literature of the Victorians and Edwardians. Enclosed in this volume are tales of dark winter nights and harrowing encounters between the worlds of Man and the Hereafter. There are tales of cursed antiquities, otherworldly toy stores, possessed dolls, deals with the devil, and murderous cabin fever. I hope your Christmas is - as M. R. James put it "may be the cheerfuller for a story-book" which takes you back to a different world - one not mapped out, trending, or tweeted about, one dark, forbidding, and evocative. Perhaps I may be a luddite for saying it, but I find something strangely comforting in that. Something consoling and hushing and chilling. Perhaps you will, too.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-29
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781943910564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During 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 Dickens's "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 Tale" "Suddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Something--what, I knew not--seemed near, something nameless, but unutterably awful." - Ada Buisson, "The Ghost's Summons" "There 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"
Author: Caitlin Matthews
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781846860652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery time their brother turned a cartwheel, golden oranges fell from his pockets, along with sugar sweets in gold and silver paper. Schnitzle, Schnotzle & Schnootzle
Author: Ellen Wood
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781948405218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new anthology of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals Seeking to capitalize on the success of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Victorian newspapers and magazines frequently featured ghost stories at Christmas time, and reading them by candlelight or the fireside became an annual tradition, a tradition Valancourt Books is pleased to continue with our series of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. This third volume contains twenty tales, most of them never before reprinted. They represent a mix of the diverse styles and themes common to Victorian ghost fiction and include works by once-popular authors like Ellen Wood and Charlotte Riddell as well as contributions from anonymous or wholly forgotten writers. This volume also features a new introduction by Prof. Simon Stern. "Before me, with the sickly light from the lantern shining right down upon it, was--a cloven hoof! Then the awfulness of the compact I had made came to my mind with terrible force ..." - Frederick Manley, "The Ghost of the Cross-Roads" "By the fireplace there was a large hideous pool of blood soaking into the carpet, and leaving ghastly stains around. I am not ashamed to confess that my brain reeled; the mysterious horror overcame me ..." - Lillie Harris, "19, Great Hanover Street" "A fearful white face comes to me; a horrible mask, with features drawn as in agony--ghastly, pale, hideous! Death or approaching death, violent death, written in every line. Every feature distorted. Eyes starting from the head. Thin lips moving and working--lips that are cursing, although I hear no sound." - Hugh Conway, "A Dead Man's Face"
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0192804472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
Author: Edward Wagenknecht
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780806112978
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