The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories Quotes

“Send Charley -in his nightdress too- to meet a wandering ghost of a suicided parson! Not I!”
― Simon Stern, The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Three

“Well, I ain't goin' to be left like an owl in the ivy bush...It's too terrifyin”
― Simon Stern, The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Three

“As we saw him first on the beach, with a dress-skirt on over his other clothes, he looked like a pretty sleeping girl. Some women cried, and not a man said a word against him.”
― Simon Stern, The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Three

“And isn't Susan a man? Of course he is! A made-up young villain, who bamboozled the old Vicar, and nearly canoodled with George, the groom”
― Simon Stern, The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Three

“He had a great dislike to all ghosts, but a particular aversion to the Christmas species. They were so moral, so improving, so bent on doing good.”
― Simon Stern, The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Three