Classic Edwardian and Victorian Ghost Stories

This 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. Also included is Edith Nesbit's Man-Size in Marble, which has been adapted for the 2024 instalment of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series by Mark Gatiss, now titled Woman of Stone. Stories include: The Tapestried Chamber The Spectre of Tappington The Botathen Ghost The Tell-Tale Heart The Squire’s Story The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand Fisher’s Ghost The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed The Phantom Coach Eveline’s Visitant Markheim Man-Size in Marble The Canterville Ghost The Haunted Doll’s House A School Story Thurnley Abbey In the Cliff Land of the Dane Laura The Story of Euphemia Hewit A Ghostly Manifestation Correspondence on ‘A Ghostly Manifestation’ Ghost in the Tower