Victorian Ghost Stories
14 Tales of Classic Horror
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By flickering candlelight, these haunting tales were carefully penned by some of greatest writers of the Victorian era, including Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine Crowe and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
The Victorian era has been dubbed the "Golden Age of the Ghost Story", producing some of the most iconic and masterful ghost stories the genre has ever seen. In this exquisite collection, you will find 14 terrifying tales which have been haunting readers for more than a century. Be transported to cobwebbed crypts, creaking manor houses, and dusky moors, where peril lies just around the corner.
Includes:
- The Dream - Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Italian's Story - Catherine Crowe
- Eveline's Visitant - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Body Snatcher - Rudyard Kipling
- And many more!
Perfect for horror lovers, these classic ghost stories are sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.
Sheridan Le Fanu
Brown Wolf Publishing creates literary investigations, interactive casebooks, and reading companions for readers who want to question what a story leaves unsaid. Its books pair public-domain literature with original dossiers, timelines, evidence-based reading routes, and interpretive challenges for independent readers, book clubs, classrooms, and collectors of Gothic fiction.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling’s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems “Mandalay” and “Gunga Din.” Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award.
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