Description: Victorian Ghost Stories maps out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrates the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. In addition to stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection includes key women writers--including Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Riddell--and such mainstream authors as Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating introduction and a chronological list of ghost story collections from 1850 to 1910.
Review Quotes: "the perfect literary shop of horrors"--The Observer