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Read * Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology PDF by # Oxford University Press eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology Stories to be read by candle light 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 writing. If
| Title | : | Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019214202X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 520 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
Le Fanu (whose "Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street," considered one of the best haunted-house story ever written, is excerpted above), plus one or two genuine rarities for the supernatural fiction enthusiast to savor. The editors also reveal the key role played by women in the growth of the genre, including stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs. Without at first a suspicion of anything supernatural, on a sudden I saw an old man, rather stout and square, in a sort of roan-red dressing-gown, and with a black cap on his head, moving stiffly and slowly in a diagonal direction, from the recess, across the floor of the bedroom, passing my bed at the foot, and entering the lumber-closet at the left. Cox and Gilbert here provide samples from Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and Wilkie Collins, as well as such classic ghost-story specialists as M.R. Finally, they offer an informative introduction, detailed source notes, and an extensive survey of ghost-story collections from 1850 to 1910. Gilbert bring together thirty-five well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave. Every one is guaranteed to satisfy what Virginia Woolf called "that strange human cra
From Publishers Weekly Following up The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories , Cox and Gilbert here suggest that "ghost stories were something at which the Victorians excelled," pointing out that the stories reflect the insecurities hidden in an outwardly ordered and confident society. Such authors as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Riddell anchored ghostly events in the still waters of domestic detail, provoking an eerie contrast, while others, like J. They note further that some of the writers who portrayed ladylike women encountering ghosts at their doors were female breadwinners churning out stories to keep the wolves from theirs. S. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfyi
Stories to be read by candle light 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 writing. If you are already a reader of the phantasmagoric, some of the anthology will be famili. Lance C. Panzer said EXCELLENT ATMOSPHERE AND SUSPENSE. These stories offer layer upon layer of Victorian manners, Victorian attitudes, and sumptuous settings. Nineteenth century England through the eyes of its contemporaries is fascinating--and uncomfortably familiar. The befuddled rich and the harried servants. Being afraid to tell someone what you saw. Being afraid of rocking the boat. These stories are really about the consequences of one's deeds--how even the grave cannot set one free of one's angst. Two sisters in love with the same man. The domineering father who disapproves of his daughter's. "Excellent choices" according to Zac Kerns. Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology has some of the best constructed and most chilling stories I have ever laid my eyes on. The characters, the settings, the plots and the dialogue from each of the stories all seem well thought out and written. I never lost my interest and always wanted to "read just one more page", from the simple to the complex, each story was wonderful in it's own way. I am sure, that if you are interested in ghosts, or just enjoy a good story now and then, this is for you. This is not a bunch of kiddy stories eithe
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