Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology - Softcover

"Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles."--New York Times Book Review"The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres."--Mystery and Detective Monthly"The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader."--The Daily Telegraph"Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip."--Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times London)"Finely produced."--The Times Literary Supplement "Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles."--New York Times Book Review "The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres."--Mystery and Detective Monthly "The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader."--The Daily Telegraph "Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip."--Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times London) "Finely produced."--The Times Literary Supplement "Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles."--New York Times Book Review "The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres."--Mystery and Detective Monthly "The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader."--The Daily Telegraph "Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip."--Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times London) "Finely produced."--The Times Literary Supplement "Imaginative....Splendid....A sumptuous array of settings and styles."--New York Times Book Review"The stories in this superior anthology, each one satisfying on its own, represent a great variety of period styles and spectres."--Mystery and Detective Monthly"The genuine article, not an anthology that crumbles at a touch....Here is much to chill the fireside reader."--The Daily Telegraph"Cox and Gilbert's canny rummagings into the spooky annal of a century or so ago unearth some relishable lesser-known blood-curdlers....Victorian Ghost Stories contains a tremendous clutch of tales and, as the era nears its end, they tighten their gruesome grip."--Peter Kemp, The Sunday TimesLondon)"Finely produced."--The Times Literary Supplement

About the Editors: Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert also edited the highly successful Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories.