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: #239836 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

If it's your type of thing buy it, I loved it.
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.

Old fashioned chills and thrills
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.

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...start reading and you won't be able to put this book down....your hair will stand on end, your eyes will get wider and wider, the eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets, heart rate will rise steadily and your brain will be filled with images of ghosts, corpses and mutilated things and copius amounts of blood....kids love this stuff as well!!