The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by R.A. Gilbert, Michael Cox

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

R.A. Gilbert, Michael Cox

528 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious slow-paced
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The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional gho...

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mysterious 100%
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