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[Oxford University Press] ☆ The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories "Savor this supernatural feast" according to ealovitt. For the sake of atmosphere, read "Victorian Ghost Stories" with a candle to light your way through its mysterious passages.A very large candle.There are thirty-five stories within its four-hundred-and-eighty-nine pages, and you must read them all before dawn.Actually, you should savor this supernatural feast one story at a time. Its editors, who are both scholars of occult literature, collected the best of the best from the Golden Age of gho
| Title | : | The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (765 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192804472 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 497 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
Other writers represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain their original power to surprise and unsettle.In Victorian Ghost Stories, the editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. There is also a fascinating Introduction and a chronological list of ghost story collections from 1850 to 1910.. The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played by women writers--including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and Charlotte Riddell--and offers one or two genuine rarities. L. 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. R. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general
"Savor this supernatural feast" according to ealovitt. For the sake of atmosphere, read "Victorian Ghost Stories" with a candle to light your way through its mysterious passages.A very large candle.There are thirty-five stories within its four-hundred-and-eighty-nine pages, and you must read them all before dawn.Actually, you should savor this supernatural feast one story at a time. Its editors, who are both scholars of occult literature, collected the best of the best from the Golden Age of ghost story. Just the thing for a rainy thunderous autumn evening Asrai I have to say these sorts of stories have gotten me through grad school Though I own more than one Victorian horror anthology, this was my latest acquisition and undoubtedly high ranking amongst my favoritesmost of the time I'd study all day and just want something relaxing to read a 20 minute getaway and since most of the stories are short enough to not be imposing and if you have quite an imagination about you, you'll enjoy the ornate details whic. TAB said Fun, fascinating, and creepy too. This is an exceptional anthology of Victorian ghost stories; all are short stories which are easily read in a brief sitting. The book serves as a remarkable spyglass into another era, one wholly foreign to our own. I enjoy each creepy tale and find the mix of authors to be effectively selected and simply organized. A truly fun read. Recommended.
"the perfect literary shop of horrors"--The Observer
Michael Cox is Editor of A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works, and The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories. R. . Gilbertis a well-known antiquarian bookseller. A
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