The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by R.A. Gilbert, Michael Cox

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

R.A. Gilbert, Michael Cox

497 pages paperback 1991

3 editions

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The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional gho...

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