The mammoth book of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories - Richard Dalby

Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James - just some of the great authors in this superb new collection of nearly 40 stories from the golden age of the ghost story, spanning the entire Victorian era from 1839 right up to the end of the Edwardian decade in 1910.;Many of literature's greatest names are in this collection, including Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, Rhoda Broughton, M. R. James, Edith Nesbit and William Hope Hodgson. Among the American contingent are Henry James, Fitz-James O'Brien, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Adams Cram, W. C. Morrow and Ambrose Bierce.;SALES POINTS: A new Mammoth on a highly popular subject; The only anthology of its kind you'll need; These masters of the macabre promise delicious - and chilling entertainment; A natural for the Christmas season.;THE EDITOR Richard Dalby is an authority on the classic chillers from the Victorian era to our own. His previous anthologies Include The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories and The Virago Book of Ghost Stories. He lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.