Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford book of Victorian ghost stories / selected and introduced by Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Cox, Michael, 1948-2009
• Gilbert, R. A.

Description

497 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"A treat for all lovers of the traditional ghost story: here are thirty-five well-wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, and spectral warnings from beyond the grave, each one of them guaranteed to generate 'the pleasurable shudder'."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Victorian ghost stories.

Subject

• English fiction > 19th century
• Ghost stories, American
• Ghost stories, English

Note

• Originally published: as Victorian ghost stories. 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The old nurse's story (1852) / Elizabeth Gaskell -- An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street (1853) / J.S. Le Fanu -- The miniature (1853) / J.Y. Akerman -- The last house in C%5F%5F Street (1856) / Dinah Mulock (Mrs. Craik) -- To be taken with a grain of salt (1865) / Charles Dickens -- The Botathen ghost (1867) / R.S. Hawker -- The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth (1868) / Rhoda Broughton -- The romance of certain old clothes (1868) Henry James -- Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse (1868) / Anon. -- Reality or delusion? (1868) / Mrs. Henry Wood -- Uncle Cornelius his story (1869) / George MacDonald -- The shadow of a shade (1869) / Tom Hood -- At Chrighton Abbey (1871) / Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- No living voice (1872) / Thomas Street Millington -- Miss Jeâromette and the clergyman (1875) / Wilkie Collins -- The story of Clifford House (1878) / Anon. -- Was it an illusion? (1881) / Amelia B. Edwards -- The open door (1882) / Charlotte Riddell -- The captain of the 'Pole-star' (1883) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The body-snatcher (1884) / R.L. Stevenson -- The story of the Rippling train (1887) / Mary Louisa Molesworth -- At the end of the passage (1890) / Rudyard Kipling -- 'To let' (1890) / R.M. Croker -- John Charrington's wedding (1891) / E. Nesbit -- The haunted organist of Hurly Burly (1891) / Rosa Mulholland -- The man of science (1892) / Jerome K. Jerome -- Canon Alberic's scrap-book (1895) / M.R. James -- Jerry Bundler (1897) / W.W. Jacobs -- An eddy on the floor (1899) / Bernard Capes -- The tomb of Sarah (1900) / F.G. Loring -- The case of Vincent Pyrwhit (1901) / Barry Pain -- The shadows on the wall (1902) / Mary E. Wilkins -- Father Macclesfield's tale (1907) / R.H. Benson -- Thurnley Abbey (1908) / Perceval Landon -- The kit-bag (1908) / Algernon Blackwood -- Sources -- Select chronological conspectus of ghost stories, 1840-1910.

ISBN

0192804472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library