Victorian Ghost Stories

The Victorian era was a golden age of the paranormal. As interest in the unexplained grew, famous writers created fantastic ghost stories, and scientists investigated unusual phenomena, reflecting a society on the brink of madness. Join bestselling author Jo-Anne Christensen as she explores the most bizarre and remarkable stories from this fascinating era of haunted history. Book jacket.

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
Famous Phantoms
Raynham Hall's Sinister Lady	p. 12
Willington Mill	p. 16
A Riveting Maritime Tale	p. 19
The Greenbrier Ghost	p. 22
An Adventure at Versailles	p. 26
Number 50, Berkeley Square	p. 33
A Horror in Amherst	p. 37
Ballechin House	p. 47
"The Morton Case"	p. 51
The Spiritualists
Emanuel Swedenborg	p. 60
Andrew Jackson Davis	p. 64
The Fox Sisters	p. 68
Seances in High Places	p. 73
Worth a Thousand Words: The Era of Spirit Photography	p. 76
Lily Dale and Cassadaga: Communities of Spriits	p. 80
Rulers of the Darkened Room	p. 83
Haunted Victorian Storytellers
Edgar Allan Poe	p. 102
Henry James	p. 106
Mark Twain	p. 108
The Brownings	p. 110
Nathaniel Hawthorne	p. 116
Guy de Maupassant	p. 119
Charles Dickens	p. 121
A Selection of Shades
The Croglin Vampire	p. 129
The Nurse	p. 139
The Screaming Skeleton	p. 146
The Gray Lady of Hackwood	p. 148
A Ghostly Telegram	p. 152
Quarantined with a Ghost	p. 154
A Devilish Tenant	p. 157
A Spirit Seeks Forgiveness	p. 159
Lady Arabella	p. 161
The Wrotham House Wraith	p. 165
The Monk's Eternal Walk	p. 171
Victorian Mysteries
Puzzling Discoveries	p. 179
"Jonah" Bartley	p. 186
The Shades of Jack the Ripper	p. 191
Strange Victorian News	p. 201
Dellschau, Keely and Spear: Inventive Minds	p. 211
Without a Trace	p. 225
Victorian Maritime Mysteries	p. 230
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