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| Title | : | Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard (Dover Mystery, Detective, & Other Fiction) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (772 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 048643429X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
Ambrose Bierce, Robert Barr, R. H. Riddell, Richard Marsh, and Guy Boothby are among the more celebrated contributors to this collection — and the excellence of their tales is rivaled by rediscovered works by several long-neglected Gothic masters.Hume Nisbet’s “The Haunted Station” unfolds amid an eerie setting in the Australian outback, while Bernard Capes’ stories center on a haunted prison cell and a green bottle with a soul trapped inside. Lady Dilke cautions against the hazards of seeking the solutions to life’s riddles, and Robert Barr’s “The Hour and the Man” demonstrates that revenge is not what it seems.Discerning lovers of horror and suspense will take particular pleasure in the rarity of these tales, none of which have been reprinted since their original publication.. Assembled by an authority on vintage thrillers, these 17 Victorian-era stories of the macabre include works from around the world by both popular and lesser-known authors. H. Murray Gilchrist, Mrs
Interesting Collection of Old-Fashioned, Victorian Ghost Stories This Dover edition is an unabridged reprint of the edition published in 1979 by W. H. Allen, London, and contains the following short stories.The Haunted Station by Hume NesbitThe Hour and the Man by Robert BarrNut Bush Farm by Mrs. J. H. RiddellThe Man Who Coined His Blood in Gold by J. H. PearceThe Shrine of Death by Lady DilkeThe Black Veil by Lady DilkeThe Ways of Ghost by Ambrose BierceThe Fever Queen by K & H PrichardThe Permanent Stiletto by W. C. MorrowThe Houseboat by Richard MarshDame Inowslad by R. "Minor Victoriana of the Gothick Type" according to Mark Newbold. Anticipation of this book did not fulfill my expectations. Though a devotee of Victorian ghost stories and novellas, this collection is one of the bottom of the victorian barrel as to horror & tales of terror. Some authors become unknown shortly after their demise, this is not necessarily a bad thing. For many especially during the 19th century were vailant authors that wrote to scratch out a living, but who for the most part were uninspired by the gothick muse. Many of the tales in this collection are of a
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