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Ghostly Tales - Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age - cover

Ghostly Tales - Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age

M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amelia B. Edwards, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Marion Crawford

Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

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Summary

A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. 
 
A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. 
 
A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. 
 
A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it screams . . .  
 
This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind—or by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, each is illustrated with exquisitely eerie artwork.
Available since: 07/25/2017.
Print length: 122 pages.

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