Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories

by Michael Cox (Editor)

There's nothing like a good ghost story. The Victorians excelled at the ghost story, as it was as much a part of their literary culture as the realistic novel, and it was practiced by almost all the great writers of the age. In Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories , Michael Cox brings together well
wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave.
Here Cox provides eerie samples from J.S. LeFanu, Henry James, and Vincent OSullivan. The presence of tales by Amelia Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, and Margaret Oliphant also reflect the important contributions made by women writers to the development of the genre. Containing several genuine
rarities, Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories will give even the most seasoned supernatural fiction enthusiast chills up the spine.
Traditional in its forms, but energetically inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise. Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories is one chilling anthology no fan of the genre will want to be
without.

Genres: Anthologies, 19th Century

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 1997

About the author

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About the Author:
Michael Andrew Cox was an English biographer, novelist and musician.
He also held the position of Senior Commissioning Editor of reference books for Oxford University Press.

Reviews

[Jeannie Sloan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like all of M. Cox's anthologies.He does a very good job of picking out interesting and entertaining stories.

[Ainhoa Huici · Rating 4 out of 5]

Algunas de las historias son bastante interesantes.

[Lynne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice mix of the familiar (Le Fanu's 'Madam Crowl's Ghost') and the not-so familiar 'The Engineer's Story'. Ghost stories are always particularly welcome at this time of year, and Cox's anthology is no exception.