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The Shrieking Skull and Other Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Paperback
HorrorClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781954321861
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: Nov 29 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Thirteen rare tales by the most prolific Victorian Christmas ghost story author, collected and republished for the first time!
Move 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.
In 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.
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