The Shrieking Skull and Other Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories - James Skipp Borlase

Descriere The Shrieking Skull and Other Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories - James Skipp Borlase

\n \nThirteen rare tales by the most prolific Victorian Christmas ghost story author, collected and republished for the first time!\n \nMove over, Charles Dickens! The author of A Christmas Carol may be the most famous Victorian author of Christmas ghost stories, but the king of the genre was James Skipp Borlase (1839-1909), who published dozens of them in obscure British and Australian periodicals during a nearly fifty-year span. Now for the first time, thirteen of Borlase's best tales have been unearthed from newspaper archives and compiled in a single volume for modern readers.\n \nIn A Weird Wooing (1898) an impecunious suitor braves a house haunted by the ghosts of plague victims in search of a legendary treasure. The Steel-Bound Valise (1875) tells of a horrid murder and a spectral vision that reveals the truth behind the awful deed. In A Bride from the Dead (1899), a man races against time on horseback to save his beloved from a forced marriage-but arrives too late to prevent an even more horrible and macabre fate. This volume showcases Borlase's wide range, featuring macabre and bone-chilling stories alongside more lighthearted pieces, all of them just as entertaining to read on a winter's night as they were more than a century ago.\n

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Valancourt Books

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781954321861

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1

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