Wimbourne Books presents the seventeenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 17 contains stories published between 1855 and 1900, all by obscure, little-known or unidentified female authors. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the almost comical politeness and structured etiquette, the archaic and precise language, but mostly the Victorians’ skill at stoking our fears and trepidations, our insecurities and doubts. Even if you are already an aficionado of the ghostly tale there is much within these pages to interest you. Wait until the dark of the snowy night, lock the doors, shutter the windows, light the fire, sit with your back to the wall and bury yourself in the Victorian macabre. Try not to let the creaking floorboards, the distant howl of a dog, the chill breeze that caresses the candle, the shadows in the far recesses of your room, disturb your concentration.

Includes the stories; The Haunted House (1855) – Louise Kirby Piatt; The Ghost of Little Jacques (1863) – Anna M. Hoyt; The White Lady (1864) – Marian Carruthers; The Ghost of Barstone Hall (1866) – Mary Morrison; What Did Miss Darrington See? (1870) – Emma B. Cobb; The Haunted Wherry (1871) – Esther Serle Kenneth; No. 289 — A Vision (1873) – Mrs. Frank McCarthy; Chantry Manor-House (1876) – Elizabeth Bedell Benjamin; The Pin Ghost (1876) – Elizabeth T. Corbett; A Legend of All-Hallow Eve (1879) – Georgiana S. Hull; The Ghost of the Treasure-Chamber (1886) – Emily Arnold; The Beckside Boggle (1886) – Alice Rea; Back from the Frozen Pole (1887) – Ellen L. Dorsey; The Copeland Collection (1889) – Margaret Crosby; The Mystery of Castle Crome (1893) – Sarah Catherine Budd; The Shadow on the Moor (1895) – Lucy Hardy; The Seaweed Room (1896) – Clarice Irene Clinghan; A Strange Experience (1898) – Miriam Forester; A Futile Ghost (1899) – Mary Reynolds; The House of the Seven Spirits (1900) – Cara Berkeley.