{"product_id":"british-ghost-stories-from-the-golden-age-of-the-ghost-story","title":"British Ghost Stories; From the Golden Age of the Ghost Story","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSelected and Introduced by Stephen Carver.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Only their eyes, their terrible eyes, were living; and those eyes were all turned menacingly upon me!' - Amelia B. Edwards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'I want to know what it is that walks about his room sometimes when he's out and when the door's locked on the outside.'- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The madness of the living is a thing so abominable and fearful as to chill every human heart with horror; it is less than nothing in comparison with the madness of the dead!' - Aleister Crowley.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Golden Age of the Ghost Story can be dated roughly from the last of the original gothic novels to the First World War. It runs from J.S. Le Fanu's early Victorian chillers, through Dickens' Christmas stories and the rise of Spiritualism, up to Le Fanu's natural heir, M.R. James. British Ghost Stories collects the eeriest tales of this period, selecting one from each of the most skilled UK writers of short supernatural fiction, men and women from England, Ireland, and Scotland, appending the first modern ghost story by Daniel Defoe. Each story is introduced with a brief biography of its author and its original publication details. This collection also includes the original stories from the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas series, 'The Signal-man', 'A Warning to the Curious', 'Lot No. 249', 'Man-size in Marble', and 'The Room in the Tower', with an Introduction exploring the history of the series, including ten tips from M.R. James on how to craft the perfect ghost story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContents:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J.S. Le Fanu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Signal-man by Charles Dickens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEveline's Visitant by Elizabeth Braddon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReality or Delusion? by Ellen Wood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiss Jéromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOld Mrs. Jones by Charlotte Riddell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Body-Snatcher by R. L. Stevenson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMan-size in Marble by E. Nesbit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Judge's House by Bram Stoker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Man of Science by Jerone K. Jerome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOut of the Sea by A. C. Benson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKeeping His Promise by Algernon Blackwood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Highwaymen by Lord Dunsany\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Testament of Magdalen Blair by Aleister Crowley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Death Mask by H. D. Everett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Warning to the Curious by M. R. 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