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[Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Guy de Maupassant, Richard Marsh] ✓ A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror (Dover Thrift Editions) Î Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror (Dover Thrift Editions) Try not to be a bride in a ghost story ealovitt If you're looking for ghosts in your ghost stories, this book might disappoint you. Even the cover story, "A Bottomless Grave" has no ghost. However we do have Victorian witches, psychic detectives, con artists, revenge-suicides, and grave-robbers.There are three humorous ghost stories, which editor Hugh Lamb realizes are not to everyone's taste so he issues an advance warning: "I. Really a Mixed Bag (and Some Not Actually Tales of Terror ) Origina
| Title | : | A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror (Dover Thrift Editions) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486415902 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
Writers of the era fed this appetite with a continuing feast of stories steeped in terror and the supernatural.This unique collection gathers together 21 of these Victorian-era spine-tinglers, but unlike most anthologies, which feature the same tired tales, this volume contains 21 outstanding, but neglected stories from that time period. Keighley Snowden, Robert Barr, and Georgina C. Clark round out this collection of carefully chosen, hard-to-find narratives, sure to delight the most discerning reader of Victorian tales of terror an
Try not to be a bride in a ghost story ealovitt If you're looking for ghosts in your ghost stories, this book might disappoint you. Even the cover story, "A Bottomless Grave" has no ghost. However we do have Victorian witches, psychic detectives, con artists, revenge-suicides, and grave-robbers.There are three humorous ghost stories, which editor Hugh Lamb realizes are not to everyone's taste so he issues an advance warning: "I. Really a Mixed Bag (and Some Not Actually Tales of Terror ) Originally published in 1977, Hugh Lamb's collection, this time published by Dover, has many now obscure late Victorian ghost stories, and contains the following works:The Devil of the Marsh by H. B. Marriott-WatsonA Tragic Honeymoon by G. R. SimsThe Battle of the Monsters by Morgan RobertsonThe Return by R. Murrey GilchristThe Corpse Light by Dick DonovanThe Ship That Saw a Ghost. A Grab Bag of Victorian Terror Tales The 21 tales gathered in this colleciton run the gamut of the Victorian Eras fascination with death, the supernatural and all things that cause fright in some way. From chilling ghost tales, including "The Ship That Saw A Ghost" by Frank Norris, "The Corpse Light" by Dick Donovan and "The Haunted Chair" by Richard Marsh to a potential mutiny in "Coolies" by W. Carlton Dawe, a uniq
Keighley Snowden, Robert Barr, and Georgina C. Clark round out this collection of carefully chosen, hard-to-find narratives, sure to delight the most discerning reader of Victorian tales of terror and the supernatural.. Writers of the era fed this appetite with a continuing feast of stories steeped in terror and the supernatural.This unique collection gathers together 21 of these Victorian-era spine-tinglers, but unlike most anthologies, which feature the same tired tales, this volume contains 21 outstanding, but neglected stories from that time period. The product of painstaking research in libraries, antique bookshops, and other out-of-the-way archives, these rare gems include the title story, a black comedy by Ambrose Bierce; "The Ship that Saw a Ghost," a tale of seafaring mystery by Frank Norris; "The Tomb," Guy de Maupassant's grotesque account of one man's incurable longing for his deceased lover; Richard Marsh's unsettling tale of "The Haunted Chair," and 17 more.Compelling tales by such lesser-known writers as Dorothea Gerard, J. Preoccupied with death, and repressed in many areas of their lives, Victorians seem to have found an emotional outlet in ghost stories, eerie tales, and a fascination with the macabre
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