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Victorian Ghost Stories

Victorian Ghost Stories

Summers, Montague
Editions, Ultimatum

Paperback

Horror

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ISBN10: 2925611990
ISBN13: 9782925611998
Publisher: Ultimatum Editions
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
The original 1936 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint. Victorian Ghost Stories is an anthology that brings together a wide range of supernatural tales published during the nineteenth century, illustrating how the ghost story developed alongside Victorian concerns with religion, morality, psychology, folklore, and social order. The collection includes works by figures such as Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine Crowe, and lesser-known contemporaries, presenting apparitions not merely as sensational devices but as vehicles for exploring guilt, inheritance, repression, and the boundaries between the rational and the unseen. Across domestic interiors, rural landscapes, and urban institutions, these stories reflect a period negotiating tensions between scientific modernity and enduring belief in the supernatural, while also preserving narrative forms rooted in oral tradition and moral exemplum. Read collectively, the volume offers a representative survey of Victorian supernatural fiction as both a literary genre and a cultural record of how the era imagined death, memory, and unseen agency.

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