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Author: Eric Millen
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05-12
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781719092463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories" contains 45 short stories of horror (chapter sections: Lost Love, Haunted, Monsters, From The Beyond). Each tale of terror is illustrated with a painting of frightening terror! All set in a time when the supernatural and the unknown ruled the land.
Author: Chris Woodyard
Publisher: Kestrel Publications (OH)
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780988192522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMacabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Author: J. Le Fanu
Publisher:
Published: 2013-09-20
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780615886343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
Author: Hugh Lamb
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780800879860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteen stories of the macabre and supernatural, involving terrible events in the mansions of the rich and ghastly crimes in the slums of the poor, by nineteenth-century British, American, French, and German writers.
Author: Bernard Capes
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected Stories by Bernard Capes is a collection of horror tales about an eddy on the floor, marble hands, and a ghost child. Excerpt: "I had the pleasure of an invitation to one of those reunions or séances at the house, in a fashionable quarter, of my distant connection, Lady Barbara Grille, whereat it was my hostess's humor to gather together those many birds of alien feather and incongruous habit that will flock from the hedgerows to the least little flattering crumb of attention. And scarce one of them but thinks the simple feast is spread for him alone. And with so cheap a bait may a title lure."
Author: Rex Collings
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781840220667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-09-04
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781501066092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
Author: Mark Leslie
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2018-10-06
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1459742591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMontreal is steeped in history and culture. But there are dark tales, eerie stories, and ghostly spectres that come alive once the sun goes down.
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-02-13
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1804172596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets and long dark lanes. A fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in. Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Sabine Baring-Gould, Vernon Lee, Edith Nesbit and the master of all, M.R. James. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2012-11-08
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1447480589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShowcasing the literary prowess of the Victorian era's women writers, this collection of short stories features haunting works of gothic horror in a celebration of the macabre. Discover the spine-tingling tales crafted by these visionary women as they explore themes of madness, the occult, ghostly encounters, and the dark recesses of the human psyche. Featuring the work of Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, and more, each story immerses the reader in a world of chilling gothic beauty. The pioneering women celebrated in this collection challenged patriarchal bounds and societal expectations in these tales of terror. This volume is part of the Mothers of the Macabre series, celebrating the gothic horror masterpieces of pioneering women writers who played a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the genre. Carefully curated, The Queens of Victorian Horror pays homage to the enduring legacy of these female authors, shedding light on their extraordinary contributions to gothic horror literature.
