The Essential Victorian Ghost Stories

There are almost too many ghost stories to choose from — Sarah Waters's “Affinity,” Marghanita Laski's“The Victorian Chaise-Longue” and Virago's ...

How to write a Victorian Christmas Ghost Story - The Writers Initiative

However, for the Victorians, cold and long winter Christmas nights were the perfect conditions to tell ghost stories around the fire. Victorian ...

What to Read When You Want a Ghost Story, Old or New

Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer of the mid-nineteenth century, is one of the major figures of the golden age of ghost stories, coming towards ...

8 Essential Ghost Story Collections to Start Your Own Haunting ...

Valdemar," Dicken's "Trial for Murder," Hawthorne's "Rappacini's Daughter," de Maupassant's "Horla," O'Brien's "What Was It?," Crawford's " ...

Class Identity and Suburban Ghost Stories, 1850 to 1880 - jstor

agency is emphasized, the Victorian suburban ghost narrative provides a middle-class male hero the opportunity to order the space of a haunted house that has ...

Why Every 1st Novel Should Be a Ghost Story - Writer Unboxed

The premise fascinates me. The point-of-view characters are the three ghosts. I am one of those people who does not believe in ghosts, but I ...

Victorian Fiction: The "Haunted" Classics - YouTube

England during the reign of Victoria is famous for industrial, scientific, and technological advances, as well as sexual repression.

I love reading ghost stories, specifically ... - The Bibliophage Space

The collections were called the Fontana Books of Great Ghost Stories. There were about a half dozen volumes published in the 1960s and 70s in ...

Christmas Ghosts: A Victorian Tradition - A Biblioteca Noturna

In the Victorian ghost story, the haunting usually serves a practical purpose: sorting out some unfinished business, revealing their own cause ...

Christmas Ghost Stories, Part 2 - The Gothic Library

Ghost stories became an indispensable part of the Christmas season during the Victorian era after Charles Dickens published A Christmas ...

Best Ghost Novels of All Time | Douglas County Libraries

The Haunting of Hill House · Jackson, Shirley ; The Turn of the Screw · James, Henry ; Hell House · Matheson, Richard ; Ghost Story · Straub, Peter.

Classic Ghost Stories - Apple Podcasts

I've always loved old/victorian ghost stories and hearing these stories read and then information shared about the authors has been so entertaining! Thank ...

The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens | My search for magic

I'm a huge fan of the Christmas ghost story, but if you run out of Victorian writers, try books by Phil Rickman – not really ghost stories ...

Writing ghost stories - Berlie Doherty

Why is this place being haunted? What connection does the ghost have with this particular place? Did they once live there, work there, die there ...

Victorian Literature - The Supernatural - Oxford Bibliographies

In fiction, the fashion for the unknown and the otherworldly coincided with the burgeoneing interest in ghost stories, and it showed connections ...

M.R. James, Master of the Victorian Ghost Story

The first ghost stories were meant to be told to others, preferably at night or in the evening by an open fire to an attentive audience of ...

Three Victorian Ghost Stories for a Spooky Christmas

Many traditional Victorian ghost stories center on ghosts—both literal and metaphorical—from a character's past who have returned to warn him ...

'Weird things can happen in the countryside': Britain's creepiest new ...

He sees Hurley as the contemporary heir to authors such as famed Victorian ghost story writer MR James. Why scary stories are booming. "The ...

Forget Halloween, Bring Ghost Stories Back to Christmas

Families in Victorian England, where written ghost stories flourished in periodicals at Christmas, would have agreed. You know the most famous ...

Supernatural Summer: Classic English and American Ghost Stories

Robert: "The Open Door" by Mrs. · Daniel: "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde (1887) · Robert: "Old Man's Beard" by H. · Daniel: "The Lass With ...