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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 new 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.
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ABOUT THE END of the American war, when the officers of Lord Cornwallis's army, which surrendered at Yorktown, and others, who had been made prisoners during the impolitic and ill-fated controversy, were returning to their own country to relate their adventures and repose themselves after their fatigues, there was amongst them a general officer, of the name of Browne - an officer of merit, as well as a gentleman of high consideration for family and attainments. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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ABOUT THE END of the American war, when the officers of Lord Cornwallis's army, which surrendered at Yorktown, and others, who had been made prisoners during the impolitic and ill-fated controversy, were returning to their own country to relate their adventures and repose themselves after their fatigues, there was amongst them a general officer, of the name of Browne - an officer of merit, as well as a gentleman of high consideration for family and attainments. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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It has stuff by Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and lots more. The stories take place all over the world. It's something different to your modern horror fiction and for the price it's worth it.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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There are 26 short spine-tinglers in this collection. At least 3 of them are not actually ghost stories at all and, although they contain not the smallest hint of anything remotely supernatural, they're still morbidly fascinating. There are another couple that are more suggestive of insanity and slight mental aberration than haunting. The rest are genuine, old fashioned ghost stories and some of them are quite disturbing (once modern, sceptical, disbelief has been properly suspended). Oscar Wilde's contribution: "The Canterville Ghost", is, of course, funny rather than frightening. If you are a fan of traditional ghost stories, a lot of the authors sampled here will be familiar names. And you don't even need to be a particular lover of supernatural tales to know the names of contributors such as Sir Walter Scott or Charles Dickens. I thoroughly enjoyed them all - well known and unknown alike. If there had been a little something (preferably "The Willows" or "The Wendigo") by Algernon Blackwood, it would have been a perfectly rounded offering. But even without AB, it's pretty good and I recommend it to anyone who, like me, enjoys a nice, safe chill before bed.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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A reasonable compendium of ghost stories from the era, drawing in some classics from MR James, Oscar Wilde, Walter Scott and Edith Nesbit. Certainly some of these are spine tingling by virtue of the authors, but as a whole it feels like they've been somewhat thrown together such that little gems are offset by much weaker pieces and there is no real coherence across the collection. All the same, as a starting point for exploring this genre and finding which authors appeal, it's not too bad.
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Whenever I buy books from Amazon I normally buy them three at a time. So far I have managed to buy some really great books which I have yet to get round to reading as my library is... Read more
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These are no pallid modern-day ghosts, but the Victorian and Edwardian ideal of what the 'full-blooded' ghost should be. Read more
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this'll give you nightmares....
a fantastic collection of horror stories written in Victorian and Edwardian times.....those writers really do like gory and macabre stuff... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2004 by Mr. M. R. Kalhoro
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