CLASSIC VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN GHOST STORIES - Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural Series

This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter’s night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as ‘real’ apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings.

Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands – ‘Fisher’s Ghost’ by John Lang is set in Australia and ‘A Ghostly Manifestation’ by ‘A Clergyman’ is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Also included is Edith Nesbit’s Man-Size in Marble, which has been adapted for the 2024 instalment of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series by Mark Gatiss, now titled Woman of Stone.

Stories include:

The Tapestried Chamber
The Spectre of Tappington
The Botathen Ghost
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Squire’s Story
The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand
Fisher’s Ghost
The Traveller’s Story of a Terribly Strange Bed
The Phantom Coach
Eveline’s Visitant
Markheim
Man-Size in Marble
The Canterville Ghost
The Haunted Doll’s House A School Story
Thurnley Abbey
In the Cliff Land of the Dane
Laura
The Story of Euphemia Hewit
A Ghostly Manifestation
Correspondence on ‘A Ghostly Manifestation’
Ghost in the Tower