Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories

Victorian writers excelled at the ghost story. Here editor Michael Cox brings together well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave. Traditional in form but inventive and infused with a relish of the supernatural, these classic ghost stories still retain their original power to unsettle and surprise.

About the Editor:
Michael Cox is a senior commissioning editor with Oxford University Press. He has edited The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, Victorian Ghost Stories (both with R. A. Gilbert), Victorian Detective Stories, The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (with Jack Adrian), The Oxford Book of Spy Stories, and The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories.

Introduction

AMELIA B. EDWARDS (1831-92)

1 An Engineer's Story (1866)

1

(18)

J. S. LE FANU (1814-73)

2 Madam Crowl's Ghost (1870)

19

(14)

RHODA BROUGHTON (1840-1920)

3 Poor Pretty Bobby (1872)

33

(21)

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)

4 The Ghostly Rental (1876)

54

(32)

MARGARET OLIPHANT (1828-97)

5 The Lady's Walk (1882-3)

86

(50)

SIR HERBERT STEPHEN (1857-1932)

6 No. 11 Welham Square (1885)

136

(12)

B. M. CROKER (1860?-1921)

7 The Khitmatgar (1893)

148

(10)

MARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH (1839-1921)

8 Old Gervais (1893)

158

(16)

HUME NISBET (1849-c.1920)

9 The Phantom Model (1894)

174

(12)

VINCENT O'SULLIVAN (1872-1940)

10 When I Was Dead (1896)

186

(5)

BERNARD CAPES (1854-1918)

11 Dark Dignum (1899)

191

(8)

RICHARD MARSH (1857-1915)

12 The Fifteenth Man (1900)

199

(12)

Biographical Notes

211

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Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories

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