Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37255 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

Decent collection, but not scarily so...
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.