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Victorian Ghost Stories: By Eminent Women Writers
Richard Dalby here selects the very best ghost stories by outstanding 19th and early twentieth century women writers. Since the days of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, women have produced many of the finest ghost stories ever written, bringing to their craft the qualities of their personal experience and their history of living on the margins.
These twenty-one stories neatly spanning Queen Victoria's reign and including such classic authors as Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant and Willa Cather take us on a spooky tour of Irish mansions and Boston backstreets. All the tales have their spine-chilling twists, powerful atmospheres and individual brands of wit and humor.
The popular origins of ghost stories with their alliance to the oral tradition could give women a potent way of criticizing the frustrations of their constrained lives. Themes of the supernatural and ghostly happenings were rich elements to express women's fantasies, desires and images of exile and haunting loneliness. As such, these stories offer rare glimpses of the buried feelings and values that could not otherwise find a welcome reception in the stifling moral climate of the Victorian era.
These twenty-one stories neatly spanning Queen Victoria's reign and including such classic authors as Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant and Willa Cather take us on a spooky tour of Irish mansions and Boston backstreets. All the tales have their spine-chilling twists, powerful atmospheres and individual brands of wit and humor.
The popular origins of ghost stories with their alliance to the oral tradition could give women a potent way of criticizing the frustrations of their constrained lives. Themes of the supernatural and ghostly happenings were rich elements to express women's fantasies, desires and images of exile and haunting loneliness. As such, these stories offer rare glimpses of the buried feelings and values that could not otherwise find a welcome reception in the stifling moral climate of the Victorian era.
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First published September 1, 1988
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October 12, 2020
A collection of 21 ghost stories by Victorian women writers. Interestingly at the time women led the field in Gothic novels and stories in this genre, although they were often published anonymously, in magazines such as Charles Dickens's "Household Words". This collection includes many famous names such as Mary Braddon and Charlotte Brontë, but also some lesser known authors, and makes for perfect reading on a Winter's evening.
February 28, 2018
Recopilación largamente buscada y tras su lectura me siento orgulloso de su continua búsqueda. Antología excelente, que hoy en día tan solo 3 relatos han aparecido en nuevos libros, todos los demás solo pueden ser leídos aquí. Bravo.
Solo autoras del siglo XX en su mayoría inglesa. Una delicadeza y calidad propia de ellas, que ningún hombre podría llegar a la suela del zapato.
Hay relatos espeluznantes que hoy en día películas modernas han tomado como premisa. Tales como una niña en un orfanato en la que le aparece un fantasma por las esquinas, con gorro de castigo dándole la espalda…Casas abandonadas, apariciones, volver de la muerte e infinidad de tramas cuya centro son los fantasmas.
De las mejores recopilaciones habidas y no es de Valdemar. Sorprendente.
Solo autoras del siglo XX en su mayoría inglesa. Una delicadeza y calidad propia de ellas, que ningún hombre podría llegar a la suela del zapato.
Hay relatos espeluznantes que hoy en día películas modernas han tomado como premisa. Tales como una niña en un orfanato en la que le aparece un fantasma por las esquinas, con gorro de castigo dándole la espalda…Casas abandonadas, apariciones, volver de la muerte e infinidad de tramas cuya centro son los fantasmas.
De las mejores recopilaciones habidas y no es de Valdemar. Sorprendente.
November 29, 2019
Una estupenda antología de 35 cuentos de fantasmas, donde no necesariamente son presencias terroríficas, pero las ambientaciones sí resultan inquietantes. En un hecho milagroso, sólo había leído 1 cuento de esta antología ("Los ojos" de Edith Wharton, un clásico) así que pude disfrutar de 34 cuentos nuevos para mí. Me gustaron especialmente "Control dual" de Elizabeth Walter y "El relato de la enfermera de noche" de Edith Olivier, pero todos tienen gran calidad.
February 14, 2019
A terrific collection of ghost stories from the Victorian era.
October 28, 2016
Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers is an anthology that contains twenty-one stories of crypts, brain fevers, meditations on the meaning of God, enormous crumbling houses, obsessive artists, creepy children, and moors. So, you know, pretty much everything I cherish in life. While most of the stories were published firmly within the Victorian Era, a few were published just before or just after it.
As is, unfortunately, often the case with older books, I have to issue a trigger warning for racism and anti-Semitism. You can skip the story “The Story of Salome” entirely – it’s about a Jewish woman who secretly converts to Christianity but is buried in a Jewish cemetery and cannot rest because she hasn’t had a Christian burial. It’s terrible on many levels, including the instant obsession of the narrator and the disgust displayed towards Jewish people.
Overall, I was disappointed by the stories, which were not so much frightening as perplexing. I suspect that a great deal of this has to do with the changing culture and shifts in what people feared and wanted to explore. These stories are frequently moralistic, often feel incomplete, and rely on very specific and punitive ideas about religion and justice. They are also oddly constructed, often seeming either too drawn out or too cut off, with a lot of obsession at first sight.
I would only recommend this book to people who have a specific and passionate interest in Victorian literature and/or forgotten women writers. To me, the most interesting thing about the collection was the introduction, which gives a good historical context for the stories, and the exposure to so many writers that I hadn’t heard of previously. It makes for fun Halloween reading, or, if you want to be Victorian about it, Christmas reading (the Victorians loved telling ghost stories during the Christmas Season which suggests that we are not the first era to find all that merrymaking to be stressful). Me, I’m gonna go re-read some Poe. That dude was MESSED UP.
- Carrie S.
Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers is an anthology that contains twenty-one stories of crypts, brain fevers, meditations on the meaning of God, enormous crumbling houses, obsessive artists, creepy children, and moors. So, you know, pretty much everything I cherish in life. While most of the stories were published firmly within the Victorian Era, a few were published just before or just after it.
As is, unfortunately, often the case with older books, I have to issue a trigger warning for racism and anti-Semitism. You can skip the story “The Story of Salome” entirely – it’s about a Jewish woman who secretly converts to Christianity but is buried in a Jewish cemetery and cannot rest because she hasn’t had a Christian burial. It’s terrible on many levels, including the instant obsession of the narrator and the disgust displayed towards Jewish people.
Overall, I was disappointed by the stories, which were not so much frightening as perplexing. I suspect that a great deal of this has to do with the changing culture and shifts in what people feared and wanted to explore. These stories are frequently moralistic, often feel incomplete, and rely on very specific and punitive ideas about religion and justice. They are also oddly constructed, often seeming either too drawn out or too cut off, with a lot of obsession at first sight.
I would only recommend this book to people who have a specific and passionate interest in Victorian literature and/or forgotten women writers. To me, the most interesting thing about the collection was the introduction, which gives a good historical context for the stories, and the exposure to so many writers that I hadn’t heard of previously. It makes for fun Halloween reading, or, if you want to be Victorian about it, Christmas reading (the Victorians loved telling ghost stories during the Christmas Season which suggests that we are not the first era to find all that merrymaking to be stressful). Me, I’m gonna go re-read some Poe. That dude was MESSED UP.
- Carrie S.
November 28, 2009
Overall this was a very well thoughtout book.I enjoyed it a great deal.The one thing to remember while reading this book is that it is considered Literature and if sometimes the 'ghost' isn't so scary this does not detract from the enjoyment one feels when reading these fine stories.
Another thing that is impressive is the breadth of authour's used.We have evereyone from the more commononly seen in ghost stories like Elizabeth Gaskell and Mrs. Henry Wood to the not so commonly seen Charlotte Bronte and Lanoe Falconer.
One of my favorite story's is The Old Nurses Story by Gaskell.It is sweet and scary and keeps you guessing until the end.
Another favorite is Violet Hunt's The Prayer.I found it quite chilling.
There are a few stories that I have read in other anthologies but for the most part the majority of the stories were 'new' to me.
So if you want an anthology of Women's short stories that are literate and, for the most part, unsettling you can not go wrong with this anthology.
The following are the author's in this anthology:
Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Gaskell
Dinah M. Murlock
Catherine Crowe
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Rosa Mulholland
Amelia B. Edwards
Rhoda Broughton
Mrs. Henry Wood
Vernon Lee
Charlotte Riddell
Margaret Oliphant
Lanoe Falconer
Louisa Baldwin
Violet Hunt
Mary Cholomondeley
Ella D'Arcy
Gertrude Atherton
Willa Cather
Mary E. Wilkins
Isabella Banks
Another thing that is impressive is the breadth of authour's used.We have evereyone from the more commononly seen in ghost stories like Elizabeth Gaskell and Mrs. Henry Wood to the not so commonly seen Charlotte Bronte and Lanoe Falconer.
One of my favorite story's is The Old Nurses Story by Gaskell.It is sweet and scary and keeps you guessing until the end.
Another favorite is Violet Hunt's The Prayer.I found it quite chilling.
There are a few stories that I have read in other anthologies but for the most part the majority of the stories were 'new' to me.
So if you want an anthology of Women's short stories that are literate and, for the most part, unsettling you can not go wrong with this anthology.
The following are the author's in this anthology:
Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Gaskell
Dinah M. Murlock
Catherine Crowe
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Rosa Mulholland
Amelia B. Edwards
Rhoda Broughton
Mrs. Henry Wood
Vernon Lee
Charlotte Riddell
Margaret Oliphant
Lanoe Falconer
Louisa Baldwin
Violet Hunt
Mary Cholomondeley
Ella D'Arcy
Gertrude Atherton
Willa Cather
Mary E. Wilkins
Isabella Banks
September 26, 2024
3.64⭐
Preface • (1988) • essay • Richard Dalby ✔
Introduction • (1988) • essay • Jennifer Uglow 4⭐
Napoleon and the Spectre • (1919) • Charlotte Brontë 3⭐
The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • Elizabeth Gaskell 4.25⭐
The Last House in C— Street • (1856) • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 3.25⭐
Round the Fire (excerpt) • (1859) • Catherine Crowe (variant of The Benighted Traveller 3.5⭐
The Cold Embrace • (1860) • Mary Elizabeth Braddon 4⭐
Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time • (1865) Rosa Mulholland 3.5⭐
The Story of Salome • (1867) • Amelia B. Edwards 3.5⭐
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • Rhoda Broughton 3.5⭐
Reality or Delusion? • [Johnny Ludlow] • (1868) • Mrs. Henry Wood 3⭐
Winthrop's Adventure • (1881) • Vernon Lee 4⭐
The Old House in Vauxhall Walk • (1882) • Charlotte Riddell 4.25⭐
The Open Door • (1882) • Margaret Oliphant 3.25⭐
Cecilia de Noël • (1891) • Lanoe Falconer 4⭐
Many Waters Cannot Quench Love • (1895) • Louisa Baldwin 3.25⭐
The Prayer • (1895) • Violet Hunt 4.25⭐
Let Loose • (1890) • Mary Cholmondeley 5⭐
The Villa Lucienne • (1896) • Ella D'Arcy 3⭐
The Striding Place • (1896) • Gertrude Atherton 3⭐
The Affair at Grover Station • (1900) • Willa Cather 4⭐
The Vacant Lot • (1902) • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 3⭐
Haunted! • (1898) • poem • Isabella Banks 3.5⭐
Preface • (1988) • essay • Richard Dalby ✔
Introduction • (1988) • essay • Jennifer Uglow 4⭐
Napoleon and the Spectre • (1919) • Charlotte Brontë 3⭐
The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • Elizabeth Gaskell 4.25⭐
The Last House in C— Street • (1856) • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 3.25⭐
Round the Fire (excerpt) • (1859) • Catherine Crowe (variant of The Benighted Traveller 3.5⭐
The Cold Embrace • (1860) • Mary Elizabeth Braddon 4⭐
Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time • (1865) Rosa Mulholland 3.5⭐
The Story of Salome • (1867) • Amelia B. Edwards 3.5⭐
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • Rhoda Broughton 3.5⭐
Reality or Delusion? • [Johnny Ludlow] • (1868) • Mrs. Henry Wood 3⭐
Winthrop's Adventure • (1881) • Vernon Lee 4⭐
The Old House in Vauxhall Walk • (1882) • Charlotte Riddell 4.25⭐
The Open Door • (1882) • Margaret Oliphant 3.25⭐
Cecilia de Noël • (1891) • Lanoe Falconer 4⭐
Many Waters Cannot Quench Love • (1895) • Louisa Baldwin 3.25⭐
The Prayer • (1895) • Violet Hunt 4.25⭐
Let Loose • (1890) • Mary Cholmondeley 5⭐
The Villa Lucienne • (1896) • Ella D'Arcy 3⭐
The Striding Place • (1896) • Gertrude Atherton 3⭐
The Affair at Grover Station • (1900) • Willa Cather 4⭐
The Vacant Lot • (1902) • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 3⭐
Haunted! • (1898) • poem • Isabella Banks 3.5⭐
January 29, 2023
The problem with anthologies like this is that the standard of the stories in them can be so variable, and such is indeed the case here.
This was a reread for me and the story I liked best was still my favourite from the first read - Elizabeth Gaskell's The Old Nurse's Story. Both it and Violet Hunt's genuinely chilling The Prayer would earn 5 stars if judged on their own.
On the other hand, I found Ella D‘Arcy‘s The Villa Lucienne and Gertrude Atherton's The Striding Place utterly pointless, while I actually gave up on the longest entry, Lanoe Falconer's Cecilia De Noël, which seemed to be just wandering about aimlessly.
So, 3 stars is about right for this.
This was a reread for me and the story I liked best was still my favourite from the first read - Elizabeth Gaskell's The Old Nurse's Story. Both it and Violet Hunt's genuinely chilling The Prayer would earn 5 stars if judged on their own.
On the other hand, I found Ella D‘Arcy‘s The Villa Lucienne and Gertrude Atherton's The Striding Place utterly pointless, while I actually gave up on the longest entry, Lanoe Falconer's Cecilia De Noël, which seemed to be just wandering about aimlessly.
So, 3 stars is about right for this.
November 19, 2009
Delightful - there are so many female writers from the Victorian period that were utterly unknown to me. It was lovely to read examples of their supernatural short story work. I was suprised how sucked into Willa Cather's "The Affair At Grover Station" I got - it was like a masculinized Laura Ingalls Wilder with murder. Although as a caveat, be warned that it was also ragingly racist.
October 7, 2011
A compendium edited by the ever-reliable and discerning Richard Dalby.
December 27, 2021
A good sampling of Victorian ghost stories. Mostly depicts life in the upper classes and the support given to them by their servants.
Charlotte Bronte: Napoleon and the Spectre - why are Napoleon, Piche nd Marie Louise of Austria spoken about in connection with each other?
Is it as a result of an expedition through the streets with a spectre or because of a dream?
Note: Pichegru went to Paris in August 1803 with Georges Cadoudal to head a royalist uprising against the First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte. Wikipedia.
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse's Story - does Miss Furnivall's (Grace) niece (daughter of her elder sister Maude) lead a little girl outside in the snow (Rosamond)?
Sister Maude married "a foreign musician, whom their father had down from London to play music with him...
"...there is often a noise "as if someone was playing on the great organ"...that occurs before stormy weather.
Mrs Stark - Miss Furnivall's companion, Dorothy - one of the servants, Hester is Rosamond's nurse. She is from Applethwaite, Westmoreland (where her father still lives).
Present Lord Furnivall is the son of Miss Furnivall's brother, who was with the army in America, another brother was at sea.
One of these brother's would have had a daughter, Rosamond's mother, who later married a curate, son of a shopkeeper in carlisle (Rosamond's parents).
Story takes place at Furnivall Manor House, Northumberland. Themes of pride, compassion, misgivings and regret.
Dinah Mulock: The Last House in C- Street - foreboding of a mother's death or a worried daughter?
Catherine Crowe: Round the Fire -
Mary E. Braddon: The Cold Embrace - rejected love or a guilty conscience?
Rosa Mulholland: Not to be taken at Bedtime -
Amelia B. Edwards: The Story of Salome -
Rhoda Broughton: The Truth -
Mrs Henry Wood: Reality or Delusion -
Vernon Lee: Winthrop's Adventure -
Charlotte Riddell: The Old House in Vauxhall Walk - a young man (Graham Coulton) manages to outsmart his father's desire for wealth.
This is with the help of a family servant, William; is (William's) landlord's elderly sister revisiting a house in Vauxhall Walk?
Margaret Oliphant: Does the spirit of a former housekeeper's son try to find his mother through an open door of a ruined house?
Lanoe Falconer: Cecilia de Noel
Louisa Baldwin: Many Waters Cannot Quench Love - coincidence or telepathy? - two lovers are bound by the dangers of the sea.
Violet Hunt: The Prayer
Mary Cholomondeley: Let Loose - Does Mr Blake, a visiting artist, release Sir Roger Despard malignant spirit from his crypt (via Pickering, Yorkshire)?
This affects several people -a child; the curate and also the artist.
Gertrude D'Arcy: The Villa Lucienne - does Madame de M's grand-daughter, Renee see a former occupant of the villa?
Also in the party, daughter-in-law Cecile, Madame Koetlegon, reciting the story, a nurse and Medor, a boarhound.
Gertrude Atherton: The Striding Place - is Wyatt Gifford playing a practical joke when his friend Weigall) tries to save his him from a fast flowing stream?
Willa Cather: Grover Station (Wyoming) - does the man (Larry O'Toole) who has been murdered leave a clue for his friend (Terrapin Rodgers) with blue chalk after his death?
Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman): The Vacant Lot - moving to a house in Boston from Townsend Center proves unsettling for Adrianna and her family including a longstanding servant - Cordelia Battles.
Was her suitor (Abel Lyons) or an old customer from the Townsend family's inn in Townsend (Blue Leopard) behind some strange occurances?
David Townsend, George Townsend (son), Tom Townsend (father).
Banks - Haunted (poem) - the remnants of the past are everywhere - old trails and houses. Most importantly, the the past returns in our memories of neighbors, friends and family.
Charlotte Bronte: Napoleon and the Spectre - why are Napoleon, Piche nd Marie Louise of Austria spoken about in connection with each other?
Is it as a result of an expedition through the streets with a spectre or because of a dream?
Note: Pichegru went to Paris in August 1803 with Georges Cadoudal to head a royalist uprising against the First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte. Wikipedia.
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Old Nurse's Story - does Miss Furnivall's (Grace) niece (daughter of her elder sister Maude) lead a little girl outside in the snow (Rosamond)?
Sister Maude married "a foreign musician, whom their father had down from London to play music with him...
"...there is often a noise "as if someone was playing on the great organ"...that occurs before stormy weather.
Mrs Stark - Miss Furnivall's companion, Dorothy - one of the servants, Hester is Rosamond's nurse. She is from Applethwaite, Westmoreland (where her father still lives).
Present Lord Furnivall is the son of Miss Furnivall's brother, who was with the army in America, another brother was at sea.
One of these brother's would have had a daughter, Rosamond's mother, who later married a curate, son of a shopkeeper in carlisle (Rosamond's parents).
Story takes place at Furnivall Manor House, Northumberland. Themes of pride, compassion, misgivings and regret.
Dinah Mulock: The Last House in C- Street - foreboding of a mother's death or a worried daughter?
Catherine Crowe: Round the Fire -
Mary E. Braddon: The Cold Embrace - rejected love or a guilty conscience?
Rosa Mulholland: Not to be taken at Bedtime -
Amelia B. Edwards: The Story of Salome -
Rhoda Broughton: The Truth -
Mrs Henry Wood: Reality or Delusion -
Vernon Lee: Winthrop's Adventure -
Charlotte Riddell: The Old House in Vauxhall Walk - a young man (Graham Coulton) manages to outsmart his father's desire for wealth.
This is with the help of a family servant, William; is (William's) landlord's elderly sister revisiting a house in Vauxhall Walk?
Margaret Oliphant: Does the spirit of a former housekeeper's son try to find his mother through an open door of a ruined house?
Lanoe Falconer: Cecilia de Noel
Louisa Baldwin: Many Waters Cannot Quench Love - coincidence or telepathy? - two lovers are bound by the dangers of the sea.
Violet Hunt: The Prayer
Mary Cholomondeley: Let Loose - Does Mr Blake, a visiting artist, release Sir Roger Despard malignant spirit from his crypt (via Pickering, Yorkshire)?
This affects several people -a child; the curate and also the artist.
Gertrude D'Arcy: The Villa Lucienne - does Madame de M's grand-daughter, Renee see a former occupant of the villa?
Also in the party, daughter-in-law Cecile, Madame Koetlegon, reciting the story, a nurse and Medor, a boarhound.
Gertrude Atherton: The Striding Place - is Wyatt Gifford playing a practical joke when his friend Weigall) tries to save his him from a fast flowing stream?
Willa Cather: Grover Station (Wyoming) - does the man (Larry O'Toole) who has been murdered leave a clue for his friend (Terrapin Rodgers) with blue chalk after his death?
Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman): The Vacant Lot - moving to a house in Boston from Townsend Center proves unsettling for Adrianna and her family including a longstanding servant - Cordelia Battles.
Was her suitor (Abel Lyons) or an old customer from the Townsend family's inn in Townsend (Blue Leopard) behind some strange occurances?
David Townsend, George Townsend (son), Tom Townsend (father).
Banks - Haunted (poem) - the remnants of the past are everywhere - old trails and houses. Most importantly, the the past returns in our memories of neighbors, friends and family.
November 29, 2017
Anthologies are the best! Ones featuring ghost stories are even better.
I really enjoyed this. It took me a little longer than usual to finish but I think that's due to the Victorian writing styles. Trying to read so many all at once was overwhelming. Still, I liked most of the stories, and found more than one of them really creepy.
I really enjoyed this. It took me a little longer than usual to finish but I think that's due to the Victorian writing styles. Trying to read so many all at once was overwhelming. Still, I liked most of the stories, and found more than one of them really creepy.
March 4, 2022
I got this book from my friends mum and wasn’t expecting very much as I’ve never really been very into ghost stories however these were surprising and I enjoyed the great majority of them. They were a lot more entertaining than I first thought :)
October 25, 2019
I gave up about a third into it. One would have to be quite the shrinking flower to be scared by these stories.
November 7, 2017
Nell'edizione italiana intitolata "Il secondo libro dei fantasmi" sono presenti solamente i seguenti 11 racconti:
La preghiera (The Prayer) di Violet Hunt
La porta aperta (The Open Door) di Margaret Oliphant
Il gelido abbraccio (The Cold Embrasse) di Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Cecilia de Nöel (Cecilia de Nöel) di Lanoe Falconer
La verità, tutta la verità, nient'altro che la verità (The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth) di Rhoda Broughton
Napoleone e lo spettro (Napoleon and the Spectre) di Charlotte Brontë
La storia di Salomé (The Story of Salome) di Amelia B. Edwards
Una furia scatenata (Let Loose) di Mary Cholomondeley
Da non prendersi prima di andare a letto (Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time) di Rosa Mulholland
Il caso di Grover Station (The Affair at Grover Station) di Willa Cather
Il terreno abbandonato (The Vacant Lot) di Mary E. Wilkins
La mia valutazione si basa su questa edizione italiana pubblicata da La Tartaruga Edizioni.
La preghiera (The Prayer) di Violet Hunt
La porta aperta (The Open Door) di Margaret Oliphant
Il gelido abbraccio (The Cold Embrasse) di Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Cecilia de Nöel (Cecilia de Nöel) di Lanoe Falconer
La verità, tutta la verità, nient'altro che la verità (The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth) di Rhoda Broughton
Napoleone e lo spettro (Napoleon and the Spectre) di Charlotte Brontë
La storia di Salomé (The Story of Salome) di Amelia B. Edwards
Una furia scatenata (Let Loose) di Mary Cholomondeley
Da non prendersi prima di andare a letto (Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time) di Rosa Mulholland
Il caso di Grover Station (The Affair at Grover Station) di Willa Cather
Il terreno abbandonato (The Vacant Lot) di Mary E. Wilkins
La mia valutazione si basa su questa edizione italiana pubblicata da La Tartaruga Edizioni.
October 3, 2024
Napoleon and the spectre / Charlotte Brontë --1
The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell --3
The last house in C-- Street / Dinah M. Mulock --3
Round the fire / Catherine Crowe --2
The cold embrace / Mary Elizabeth Braddon --2
Not to be taken at bed-time / Rosa Mulholland --2
The story of Salome / Amelia B. Edwards --4
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth / Rhoda Broughton --2
Reality or delusion? / Mrs. Henry Wood --3
Winthrop's adventure / Vernon Lee --3
The old house in Vauxhall Walk / Charlotte Riddell --2
The open door / Margaret Oliphant --3
Cecelia de Noël / Lanoe Falconer --2
Many waters cannot quench love / Louisa Baldwin --3
The prayer / Violet Hunt --2
Let loose / Mary Cholomondeley --3
The Villa Lucienne / Ella D'Arcy --2
The striding place / Gertrude Atherton --1
The affair at Grover Station / Willa Cather --1 (racist by today's standards)
The vacant lot / Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) --2
Haunted! / Isabella Banks (poem)--2
The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell --3
The last house in C-- Street / Dinah M. Mulock --3
Round the fire / Catherine Crowe --2
The cold embrace / Mary Elizabeth Braddon --2
Not to be taken at bed-time / Rosa Mulholland --2
The story of Salome / Amelia B. Edwards --4
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth / Rhoda Broughton --2
Reality or delusion? / Mrs. Henry Wood --3
Winthrop's adventure / Vernon Lee --3
The old house in Vauxhall Walk / Charlotte Riddell --2
The open door / Margaret Oliphant --3
Cecelia de Noël / Lanoe Falconer --2
Many waters cannot quench love / Louisa Baldwin --3
The prayer / Violet Hunt --2
Let loose / Mary Cholomondeley --3
The Villa Lucienne / Ella D'Arcy --2
The striding place / Gertrude Atherton --1
The affair at Grover Station / Willa Cather --1 (racist by today's standards)
The vacant lot / Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) --2
Haunted! / Isabella Banks (poem)--2
December 22, 2009
I loved how the morality/philosophical questions of the time came across so clearly in most of these stories. I thought Willa Cather's story was one of the spookiest (although a little bit racist - not sure if that was Ms. Cather or a comment on the time).
October 5, 2014
A good selection with one or two really excellent ones. I was very impressed by Mrs Oliphant, whose name I vaguely remember, but have never read. (Must check her out). Other really good stories, but I've taken the book back to the library, and forget what!
April 8, 2024
I generally like these stories around Halloween but I was in the mood for them this weekend. Some are chilling, some are sad and some are actually charming. I really recommend the big majority of the collection for any fan of Victorian Gothic Horror.
March 21, 2016
It's good for good relax ;)
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