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Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age
Ghostly Tales SpineChilling Stories of the Victorian Age Author:Chronicle Books (Editor), Bill Bragg (Illustrator) A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard, but sometimes at night, it screams.... This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind, or by a pass... more »ing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, each story is illustrated with exquisitely eerie artwork in this special gift edition featuring an embossed textured case and a ribbon marker.
Stories include: Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M. R. James; The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Signalman by Charles Dickens; The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Captain of the Pole-Star by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards; The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford.« less