Ghost Stories #: Victorian Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories #: Victorian Ghost Stories
J K Jackson, Reggie Oliver
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Paperback
h198 x 130mm - 256pg
11 Oct 2022 UK
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9781804172407
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The Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets and long dark lanes. A fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in. Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Ambrose Bierce and the master of all, M. R. James. 10 b/w illustrations

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Reggie Oliver (Introduction) is an actor, director, playwright, illustrator and award-winning author of fiction. Published work includes six plays, three novels, an illustrated children' s book The Hauntings at Tankerton Park (Zagava 2016), nine volumes of short stories, including Mrs. Midnight (2011 winner of Children of the Night Award for best work of supernatural fiction), and the biography of the writer Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed (Bloomsbury 1998). His stories have appeared in over one hundred different anthologies and three ' selected' editions of them have been published, the latest being Stages of Fear (Black Shuck Books 2020). His ninth volume of tales A Maze for the Minotaur was published by Tartarus Press in 2021. Jackson is General Editor of The World' s Greatest Myths and Legends series, with titles including ' Myths of Babylon' , ' Indian Myth' , ' Egyptian Myth' , ' Norse Myth' and ' Polynesian Island Myth' . He is editor of ' Myths and Legends' and foreword writer for ' Celtic Myths and Tales' . Other related work includes articles on the Philosophy of Time, ' Macbeth, A Gothic Chaos' and William Blake' s use of mythology in his visionary literature.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781804172407
Published: 11 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 176g
Pages: 256

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