Download or read book Victorian Macabre Ghastly Short Stories written by Eric Millen and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories" contains 45 short stories of horror (chapter sections: Lost Love, Haunted, Monsters, From The Beyond). Each tale of terror is illustrated with a painting of frightening terror! All set in a time when the supernatural and the unknown ruled the land.
Download or read book The Victorian Ghost Story written by J. Le Fanu and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
Download or read book Victorian Tales of Terror written by Hugh Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen stories of the macabre and supernatural, involving terrible events in the mansions of the rich and ghastly crimes in the slums of the poor, by nineteenth-century British, American, French, and German writers.
Download or read book Collected Stories written by Bernard Capes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Stories by Bernard Capes is a collection of horror tales about an eddy on the floor, marble hands, and a ghost child. Excerpt: "I had the pleasure of an invitation to one of those reunions or séances at the house, in a fashionable quarter, of my distant connection, Lady Barbara Grille, whereat it was my hostess's humor to gather together those many birds of alien feather and incongruous habit that will flock from the hedgerows to the least little flattering crumb of attention. And scarce one of them but thinks the simple feast is spread for him alone. And with so cheap a bait may a title lure."
Download or read book Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Rex Collings and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.
Download or read book The Victorian Book of the Dead written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Download or read book The Best Victorian Ghost Stories written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
Download or read book Macabre Montreal written by Mark Leslie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montreal is steeped in history and culture. But there are dark tales, eerie stories, and ghostly spectres that come alive once the sun goes down.
Download or read book The Queens of Victorian Horror Rare Tales of Terror from the Pens of Female Authors of the Victorian Period written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing the literary prowess of the Victorian era's women writers, this collection of short stories features haunting works of gothic horror in a celebration of the macabre. Discover the spine-tingling tales crafted by these visionary women as they explore themes of madness, the occult, ghostly encounters, and the dark recesses of the human psyche. Featuring the work of Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, and more, each story immerses the reader in a world of chilling gothic beauty. The pioneering women celebrated in this collection challenged patriarchal bounds and societal expectations in these tales of terror. This volume is part of the Mothers of the Macabre series, celebrating the gothic horror masterpieces of pioneering women writers who played a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the genre. Carefully curated, The Queens of Victorian Horror pays homage to the enduring legacy of these female authors, shedding light on their extraordinary contributions to gothic horror literature.
Download or read book Tales from a Gas Lit Graveyard written by Hugh Lamb and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seventeen Victorian-era stories of the macabre.
Download or read book The Ghost Wore Black written by Chris Woodyard and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th- and early 20th-c. stories of ghosts, monsters, and hauntings from around the US.
Download or read book Victorian Ghost Stories written by Sheridan Le Fanu and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By flickering candlelight, these haunting tales were carefully penned by some of greatest writers of the Victorian era, including Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine Crowe and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Victorian era has been dubbed the "Golden Age of the Ghost Story", producing some of the most iconic and masterful ghost stories the genre has ever seen. In this exquisite collection, you will find 14 terrifying tales which have been haunting readers for more than a century. Be transported to cobwebbed crypts, creaking manor houses, and dusky moors, where peril lies just around the corner. Includes: • The Dream - Sheridan Le Fanu • The Italian's Story - Catherine Crowe • Eveline's Visitant - Mary Elizabeth Braddon • The Body Snatcher - Rudyard Kipling • And many more! Perfect for horror lovers, these classic ghost stories are sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.
Download or read book Victorian Ghost Stories written by J.K. Jackson and published by Flame Tree 451. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets and long dark lanes. A fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in. Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Ambrose Bierce and the master of all, M.R. James. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Download or read book Victorian Tales of Terror written by Hugh Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead man playing a violin, the young doctor tasked with saving a doomed life, the deformed creatures and their mysterious mother, the desperate chase to kill a murderous monster...The Victorian era was a heyday for tales of the supernatural and macabre. Alongside such well known stories as The Signalman, The Monkey's Paw and A Warning to the Curious were hundreds of other, lesser known but equally accomplished, short stories. Victorian Tales of Terror, first published in 1974, brought together 15 long forgotten works of spooky fiction by writers such as Charles Dickens, J. Sheridan le Fanu and Ambrose Bierce. Over the course of 47 years, Hugh Lamb became one of the most celebrated anthologists of lost or forgotten tales of the supernatural and macabre. This new edition of Victorian Tales of Terror, featuring an extra story not found in the original edition, is presented as a commemoration of his life and his work.
Download or read book Victorian Horror Stories written by Mike Stocks and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Filled with adventure, l excitement and suspense -- Action-packed illustrations help bring the stories to life
Download or read book A Collection of Victorian Horror Stories Short Stories from Fantastic Writers Such as Bram Stoker Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Fantas written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully chosen collection of horror stories from the Victorian period includes stories from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bram Stoker
Download or read book Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the first story: "Bronckhorst was not nice in any way. He had no respect for the pretty public and private lies that make life a little less nasty than it is. His manner towards his wife was coarse. There are many things-including actual assault with the clenched fist-that a wife will endure; but seldom a wife can bear-as Mrs. Bronckhorst bore-with a long course of brutal, hard chaff, making light of her weaknesses, her headaches, her small fits of gaiety, her dresses, her queer little attempts to make herself attractive to her husband when she knows that she is not what she has been, and-worst of all-the love that she spends on her children. That particular sort of heavy-handed jest was specially dear to Bronckhorst. I suppose that he had first slipped into it, meaning no harm, in the honeymoon, when folk find their ordinary stock of endearments run short, and so go to the other extreme to express their feelings."
