We love ghost stories here at Wildside Press—witness the fact that we have now now reached our eighth volume in this series. Very few other genres are so versatile and enduring as tales of the supernatural. Ghosts can (and have) appeared in literature for thousands of years, in all countries and continents (and times past, present, and future) throughout the world. But the Victorian era particularly seemed to embrace ghost stories, and that’s when Christmas ghost tales became not just a staple of literature, but a requirement. Seemingly all British fiction magazines (and many newspapers) had to publish at least one ghostly tale in the month of December.
Proving that the ghost story tradition is strong to the present day, we have an original story from Phyllis Ann Karr (author of the Frostflower and Thorn series), plus two drawn from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (which strayed a little more into the fantastic and horrific in the 1960s that it does today), plus another modern story by Wallace West, who is best known as a science fiction writer. Good stuff.
Here is the complete lineup:
UNSEEN—UNFEARED, by Francis Stevens
RUNNING WOLF, by Algernon Blackwood
UNCLE CHRISTIAN’S INHERITANCE, by Erckmann-Chatrian
MOMMY, by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
A GHOST’S REVENGE, by Tighe Hopkins
THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by George MacDonald
THE THING IN THE UPPER ROOM, by Arthur Morrison
DIE, GEORGE!, by Stephen Wasylyk
HEINRICH, by Wallace West
RESURGAM, by Rina Ramsay
THE SPECTRE OF TAPPINGTON, by Thomas Ingoldsby
THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST, by H. G. Wells
THE SECOND MRS. RANDLEMAN, by Talmage Powell
THE SILVER MIRROR, by Arthur Conan Doyle
WHILE THE PASSENGERS SLEPT, by Edgar Wallace
THE WARNING LIGHT, by Phyllis Ann Karr
NAPOLEON AND THE SPECTRE, by Charlotte Brontë
THE COLD EMBRACE, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
THE PHIAL OF DREAD, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
SOME STRANGE DISTURBANCES IN AUNGIER STREET, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
THE OLD NURSE’S STORY by Mrs. Gaskell
THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS, by Amelia B. Edwards
THE SECRET OF THE STRADIVARIUS, by Hugh Conway
MR. GRAY’S STRANGE STORY, by Louisa Murray
HOW HE LEFT THE HOTEL, by Louisa Baldwin
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