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    The Top 10 Short Stories - Victorian Ghost: The top ten Victorian ghost short stories of all time.
    The Top 10 Short Stories - Victorian Ghost: The top ten Victorian ghost short stories of all time.
    The Top 10 Short Stories - Victorian Ghost: The top ten Victorian ghost short stories of all time.
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    The Top 10 Short Stories - Victorian Ghost: The top ten Victorian ghost short stories of all time.

    Written by Sheridan Le Fanu, Amelia Edwards, Charles Dickens and

    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    About this audiobook

    The top 10 Victorian ghost short stories of all time.

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

    In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

    The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

    Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

    Across these decades of Imperial pomp another force lurks in the shadows, in the darkness, in the minds of these authors strange concoctions are brewed into deadly attacks upon our nerves. These very familiar names bring very familiar torments.

    1 - The Top 10 - The Victorian Ghost Story - An Introduction

    2 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

    3 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens

    4 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

    5 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

    6 - The Mezzotint by M R James

    7 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

    8 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

    9 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken by Sheridan Le Fanu

    10 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

    11 - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateApr 19, 2021
    ISBN9781839678523
    The Top 10 Short Stories - Victorian Ghost: The top ten Victorian ghost short stories of all time.
    Author

    Sheridan Le Fanu

    J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer who helped develop the ghost story genre in the nineteenth century. Born to a family of writers, Le Fanu released his first works in 1838 in Dublin University Magazine, which he would go on to edit and publish in 1861. Some of Le Fanu’s most famous Victorian Gothic works include Carmilla, Uncle Silas, and In a Glass Darkly. His writing has inspired other great authors of horror and thriller literature such as Bram Stoker and M. R. James.

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