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The Victorian Ghost Story: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of the Macabre (1852-1912)

The Victorian Ghost Story: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of the Macabre (1852-1912)

Kellermeyer, Michael G.
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan

Paperback

Series: Oldstyle Tales' Ghost Stories, Book 1

Horror

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ISBN10: 0615886345
ISBN13: 9780615886343
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Sep 20 2013
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Our mission is to provide the world with beautiful, accessible, illuminating editions of classic horror fiction, introducing these chilling gems to new generations, making them gorgeously illustrated and giving you critical, historical, and artistic insights with every single story. This is one of those books. Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.

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