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Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology (Oxford Paperbacks)

Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Michael Cox (Editor), Michael Cox (Editor), R. A. Gilbert (Editor), M. Cox (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

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Synopsis

Ghost stories were something at which the Victorians excelled. In an age of rapid material and scientific progress the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held an especial potential for terror, and throughout the 19th century fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination for death and what lay beyond it. In this anthology, the editors of the "Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories" map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the 20th century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J.S. Le Fanu, M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood, this selection also emphasizes the key role played by woman writers - Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs Craik, Rhoda Broughton, Mrs Henry Wood, M.E. Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, B.M. Croker and E. Nesbit, among many others - and offers one or two rareties for the supernatural fiction enthusiast to savour. Other writers represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, George MacDonald, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, R.L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Jerome K. Jerome, Bernard Capes, R.H. Benson and W.W. Jacobs. This collection is aimed at lovers of traditional ghost stories: here are 35 well-wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond the grave.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 518
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 01 Nov 1992
ISBN 10: 0192829998
ISBN 13: 9780192829993

Media Reviews
Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles. --New York Times Book Review
The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres. --Mystery and Detective Monthly
The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader. --The Daily Telegraph
Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip. --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times
London)
Finely produced. --The Times Literary Supplement


Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles. --New York Times Book Review
The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres. --Mystery and Detective Monthly
The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader. --The Daily Telegraph
Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip. --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times
London)
Finely produced. --The Times Literary Supplement

Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles. --New York Times Book Review
The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres. --Mystery and Detective Monthly
The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader. --The Daily Telegraph
Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip. --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times London)
Finely produced. --The Times Literary Supplement


Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles. --New York Times Book Review


The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres. --Mystery and Detective Monthly


The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader. --The Daily Telegraph


Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip. --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times London)


Finely produced. --The Times Literary Supplement


Author Bio

About the Editors:
Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert also edited the highly successful Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories. Cox is also the author of M.R. James: An Informal Portrait and has edited two selections of M.R. James's ghost stories. Gilbert is a well-known antiquarian bookseller in London.