Close the curtains against the howling wind, pull your chair closer to the fire, lock the door, and above all, do not let any strangers into your home! This collection of chilling Christmas stories reveals that in December, it is not only cold outside, but the chill can creep into the heart as well. Exciting tales from Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Tremayne, John Collier, and many others await.
Gathering together deliciously chilling tales from the three highly-acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories, this collection features stories by A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Charlotte Brontë, Antonia Fraser, Penelope Lively, Ruth Rendell, Edith Wharton, and many more. Here lost loves, past enmities, and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses, settle scores, and haunt the imagination. All of the writers demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore the ghostly margins of the supernatural.
The Victorians, and later the Edwardians, had a passion for the weird, scary and richly embroidered tales of the bizarre and supernatural. In this deliciously chilling volume are many of literature's greatest names, spanning the Victorian era from 1839 right up the end of the Edwardian decade in 1910.
Sbírka duchařský povídek anglických autorek z viktoriánské doby. Antologii sestavil Richard Dalby. Tematicky navazuje na započatou řadu, kterou tvoří Skotské duchařské historky, Irské duchařské historky a Anglické duchařské historky. Richard Dalby nám předkládá další lahůdku v podobě povídek ze „zlaté éry" duchařských příběhů, jež byly většinou publikované v soudobých časopisech. Setkáme se zde s mnoha druhy duchů, jak se zlomyslnými a hrůzostrašnými, tak i se sympatickými a dobrotivými.
