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Beyond the Vanishing Point ed. Erik Gulbrandsen & Joshua Orr--- see under Joshua Orr.

Offerings for the Green Man: Poetry and Prose from the Celtic Nations ed. Kathleen Cunningham Guler (Bardsong Press, 2000, 0966037111, 63pp, hc, an)
“A Bardsong Press Celtic voice anthology.”
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

9 · Introduction · Kathleen Cunningham Guler · in

13 · Hearts · Mary Alice Gunderson · vi (r)

15 · Grainne · Kathrine Dixon · pm (r)

17 · Answer to Taliessin · Nicole Dentzien · pm (r)

21 · Ring of Truth · Julie Eberhart Painter · vi (r)

24 · The Ballad of Rabbie MacCurry · Cathy McCombs · pm (r)

25 · Emer’s Last Battle · Kaitlyn S. Downing · pm (r)

27 · The Courage Within · Angeline Hawkes-Craig · vi (r)

30 · The Farm Wife’s Remembrance · Barbara O’Donnell · pm (r)

32 · Hero · Siannan · pm (r)

34 · The Plague in Wales in 1349, as Told by a Scullery Maid · Jane Guill · vi (r)

38 · Riddle of the Dragonship · Frederic Dunbar Tompkins · pm (r)

40 · Strata Florida · Susan E. Cook · vi (r)

43 · Resonance · Laurie Lee Didesch · pm (r)

45 · Igraine · Debra A. Kemp · vi (r)

49 · After Culloden · Brian Walters · pm (r)

50 · Clonmacnoise · Lorraine Healy · pm (r)

53 · Lughnasadh · Kimberly Schneider · pm (r)

56 · Dance the Circle on Midwinter Night · Kathleen Cunningham Guler · pm (r)

59 · Our Contributors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

Mind Seed: A Science Fiction Anthology ed. David Gullen & Gary Couzens (T Party Books, July 13, 2014, 978-1-291-93432-8, £7.99, 183pp, tp, oa, cover by Ian Stead)
Original/reprint collection of 9 SF stories. Authors are Nina Allan, Helen Callaghan, Couzens, Fox McGeever, Martin Owton, Rosanne Rabinowitz, Ian Whates, Deborah Walker, Markus Wolfson, and the late Denni Schnapp - to whom the book is dedicated. The Introduction is by Schnapp’s husband, John Howroyd. The book was available in July, and launched at Loncon (17 August 2014). Profits go to the anti-child trafficking charity, “Next Generation Nepal”.

xi · Introduction · John Howroyd · in

1 · Sex and the Single Hive Mind · Helen Callaghan · ss

21 · Evolution · Fox McGeever · ss

37 · Living in the Vertical World · Rosanne Rabinowitz · nv

61 · Darkchild · Ian Whates · ss Oddlands Magazine #1, March 1 2008

75 · Rockhopper · Martin Owton & Gary Couzens · nv

111 · Bird Songs at Eventide · Nina Allan · ss Interzone #199, July/August 2005

127 · Alien Invaders · Markus Wolfson · nv

155 · The Three Brother Cities · Deborah Walker · ss The Gruff Variations: Writing for Charity Anthology, Vol. 1 ed. Eric James Stone, Writing for Charity, 2012

167 · Mind Seed · Denni Schnapp · ss

179 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales ed. David Gullen (NewCon Press, September 3, 2019, 978-1-912950-29-4, £26.75, 228pp, hc, oa, cover by Ben Baldwin)
Details taken from online listing.

· Once Upon a Parsec · David Gullen · in

· The Little People · Una McCormack · ss

· Lost in the Rewilding · Paul Di Filippo · ss

· Goblin Autumn · Adrian Tchaikovsky · ss

· Myths of Sisyphus · Allen Ashley · ss

· The Land of Grunts and Squeaks · Chris Beckett · ss

· The Blood Rose · Susan Oke · ss

· Starfish · Liz Williams · ss

· The Raveller’s Tale · Neil Williamson · ss

· The Tiny Traveller · Aliya Whiteley · ss

· The Tale of Suyenye the Wise, the Ay, and the People of the Shining Land · Gaie Sebold · ss

· Wanderlust · Kim Lakin-Smith · ss

· Pale Sister · Jaine Fenn · ss

· Alpha42 and the Space Hermits · Stephen Oram · ss

· The Teller and the Starborn · Peter Sutton · ss

· The Winternet · Ian Whates · ss

· The Awakening · Bryony Pearce · ss

No Rest for the Dead ed. Andrew F. & Lamia Gulli (Touchstone, 2011, 978-1-4516-0737-6, $24.99, 252pp, hc, oa)
Over twenty bestselling authors collaborated to write this serial novel. All royalties will be donated to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Ten years after the murder of a museum curator, whose wife was convicted and executed for the crime, a skeptical detective gathers the other suspects, intent on uncovering the truth.

xi · Introduction · David Baldacci · in

1 · Diary of Jon Nunn · Andrew F. Gulli · rr

5 · No Rest for the Dead: Prologue · Jonathan Santlofer · rr

· 1998

19 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 1 · Jeff Lindsay · rr

29 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 2 · Alexander McCall Smith · rr

39 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 3 · Raymond Khoury · rr

47 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 4 · Jonathan Santlofer · rr

57 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 5 · Sandra Brown · rr

65 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 6 · Faye Kellerman · rr

73 · Diary of Jon Nunn · Andrew F. Gulli · rr

77 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 7 · Jonathan Santlofer · rr

81 · The Police Reports · Kathy Reichs · rr

· The Present

91 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 8 · John Lescroart · rr

103 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 9 · T. Jefferson Parker · rr

111 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 10 · Lori Armstrong · rr

117 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 11 · Matthew Pearl · rr

125 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 12 · Michael Palmer · rr

133 · Diary of Jon Nunn · J. A. Jance · rr

135 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 13 · Gayle Lynds · rr

139 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 14 · Andrew F. Gulli · rr

141 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 15 · J. A. Jance · rr

143 · Diary of Jon Nunn · Andrew F. Gulli · rr

147 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 16 · R. L. Stine · rr

153 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 17 · Marcia Talley · rr

161 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 18 · Thomas H. Cook · rr

165 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 19 · Diana Gabaldon · rr

167 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 20 · Thomas H. Cook · rr

171 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 21 · Diana Gabaldon · rr

173 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 22 · Peter James · rr

179 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 23 · Tess Gerritsen · rr

185 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 24 · Lisa Scottoline · rr

187 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 25 · Phillip Margolin · rr

189 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 26 · Jeffery Deaver · rr

197 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 27 · Kathy Reichs · rr

205 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 28 · R. L. Stine · rr

209 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 29 · Jeffery Deaver · rr

217 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 30 · Jeff Abbott · rr

229 · No Rest for the Dead: Chapter 31 · Marcus Sakey · rr

243 · Diary of Jon Nunn, Last Entry · Jonathan Santlofer & Andrew F. Gulli · rr

· Appendix: Additional Police Reports

247 · I. The Forensic Entomology Report · Kathy Reichs · ms

248 · II. The Radiology Report · Kathy Reichs · ms

250 · III. The Forensic Odontology Report · Kathy Reichs · ms

251 · IV. The Fingerprint Comparison Report · Kathy Reichs · ms

No Rest for the Dead ed. Lamia & Andrew F. Gulli--- see under Andrew F. Gulli.

Extinction Biome: Invasion by Addison Gunn (Abaddon Books, June 9, 2016, 978-1-78108-388-8, £7.99, 397pp, tp, co, cover by Edouard Groult)
Collection of 5 e-novellas, originally published March to June 2016.

5 · Operation Honshu Wolf · Addison Gunn (by Malcolm Cross & Anne Tibbets) · na Abaddon Books, 2016

93 · Operation Wild Tarpan · Addison Gunn (by Anne Tibbets & Malcolm Cross) · na Abaddon Books, 2016

169 · Operation Caspian Tiger · Addison Gunn (by Anne Tibbets & Malcolm Cross) · na Abaddon Books, 2016

249 · Operation Sea Mink · Addison Gunn (by Anne Tibbets) · na Abaddon Books, 2016

327 · Operation Atlas Lion · Addison Gunn (by Anne Tibbets) · na Abaddon Books, 2016

Ballymoon by Alastair G. Gunn (Enigmatic Press, July 2000, 0-9537476-6-2, £4.00, 72pp, tp, oc, cover by Cathy Buburuz)
Original collection of three ghost stories. Volume five in the “Enigmatic Variations” series.

5 · The Sorrow at Draper’s Field · Alastair G. Gunn · ss

21 · Ballymoon · Alastair G. Gunn · nv

57 · Belper’s Emporium · Alastair G. Gunn · ss

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, January 7, 2018, 978-0-9929828-4-3, £9.99, 340pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Dinah Maria Craik] by Sir Hubert Von Herkomer from 1887)
This volume spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

24 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited.

46 · The Last House in C— Street · Dinah Maria Craik · ss Fraser’s Magazine October 1856, uncredited.

59 · My Friend’s Story · Catherine Ann Crowe · ss Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858

66 · The Cold Embrace · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss The Welcome Guest September 22 1860

76 · How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1863, uncredited.

90 · Wraith-Haunted · Isabella Banks · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1868

106 · The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1870

117 · The Man with the Nose · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar October 1872

135 · Seen in the Moonlight [Johnny Ludlow] · Ellen Wood · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1875, as by Johnny Ludlow

158 · The Secret Chamber · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine December 1876

189 · The Open Door · Charlotte Riddell · nv Weird Stories by Mrs. J. H. Riddell, James Hogg, 1882

221 · In the Dark · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) June 1885

233 · The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly · Rosa Mulholland · ss All the Year Round November 10 1866, uncredited.

247 · The Story of the Rippling Train · Mary Louisa Molesworth · ss Longman’s Magazine October 1887

257 · A Wicked Voice · Vernon Lee · nv Hauntings, Fantastic Stories by Vernon Lee, Heinemann, 1890
revised from “A Culture-Ghost; or, Winthrop’s Adventure” Fraser’s Magazine Jan 1881.

284 · The Trainer’s Ghost · Lettice Galbraith · ss New Ghost Stories by Lettice Galbraith, Ward Lock, 1893

299 · How He Left the Hotel · Louisa Baldwin · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1894, uncredited.

304 · The Picture on the Wall · Katharine Tynan · ss The English Illustrated Magazine December 1895

317 · The Woodley Lane Ghost · Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren · nv The Woodley Lane Ghost and Other Stories by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Drexel Biddle, 1899

336 · The Ghost of the Belle-Alliance Plantation · Lilian Giffen · ss The Ghost of the Belle-Alliance Plantation by Lilian Giffen, Friedenwald, 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 2 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 14, 2018, 978-0-9929828-5-0, £11.99, 407pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer] by Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer from 1862)
This volume spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas, and includes stories from a wide range of authors including Charles Dickens, Amelia B. Edwards and Louisa May Alcott.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

18 · A Christmas Tree · Charles Dickens · nv Household Words #39, December 21 1850, uncredited.

34 · The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837

45 · The Ghost · William D. O’Connor · na Putnam’s Monthly January 1856; subtitled “A Christmas Story”.

89 · The Oxford Ghost · James Hain Friswell · ss Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies by Hain Friswell, Richard Bentley, 1858

104 · Maese Pérez, the Organist · Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · nv Terrible Tales: Spanish, W.W. Gibbings, 1891, uncredited.
translated from the Spanish (“Maese Pérez, el organista (Leyenda sevillana)”, El Contemporaneo, December 1861).

116 · The North Mail · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1864, as “Another Past Lodger Relates His Own Ghost Story”, uncredited.

130 · The Abbot’s Ghost: or, Maurice Treherne’s Temptation · Louisa May Alcott · na The Flag of Our Union January 5 1867 (+3), as by A. M. Barnard

195 · Catherine’s Quest · [uncredited] · nv A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

211 · The Ghost’s Summons · Ada Buisson · ss Belgravia January 1868

218 · At Chrighton Abbey · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · nv Belgravia May 1871, uncredited.

249 · The Ghosts at Grantley · Leonard Kip · nv Argus Company, December 1875

282 · Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk · Frank Cowper · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1889

303 · The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891

312 · Unexplained · Letitia McClintock · ss The Argosy (UK) April 1891

320 · A Gruesome Joke [Bell & Wright] · Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett · ss Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office by Mrs. George Corbett, Routledge, 1891

330 · The Brazen Cross · H. B. Marriott Watson · ss Diogenes of London by H. B. Marriott Watson, Methuen, 1893

336 · The Real and the Counterfeit · Louisa Baldwin · ss The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, Dent, 1895

352 · The Vanishing House · Bernard Capes · ss The Sketch January 5 1898

357 · The Great Staircase at Landover Hall · Frank R. Stockton · ss Harper’s Weekly December 17 1898

370 · Wolverden Tower · Grant Allen · nv The Illustrated London News November 23 1896

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 3 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 22, 2018, 978-0-9929828-6-7, £8.99, 286pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of William Wilkie Collins] by Rudolph Lehmann from 1880)
This volume contains stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1839 and 1896.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

12 · The Deaf and Dumb Girl · [uncredited] · ss Atkinson’s Casket July 1839

24 · The Picture Bedroom · [uncredited] · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1840, as by Dalton

37 · It Is No Fiction · Sarah Agnes Dicken, uncredited · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine September 1844

49 · Mabel · [uncredited] · ss The London Journal January 13 1849

64 · The Bright Room of Cranmore · [uncredited] · ss Fraser’s Magazine January 1850

81 · Fisher’s Ghost · John Lang, uncredited · nv Household Words #154, March 5 1853
derived from a report by W. Kerr in Tegg’s Monthly Magazine, Aug 1836.

89 · The Ghost of Heatherbell Abbey · [uncredited] · ss London Society #12, Christmas 1862

106 · A Tale of a Gas-light Ghost · [uncredited] · ss New Christmas Annual December 1867

116 · Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse · [uncredited] · nv A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

134 · Haunted · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

145 · The Ghost at Laburnum Villa · [uncredited] · ss Belgravia August 1870

158 · The Sergeant’s Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss All the Year Round January 1873

164 · The Bryansfort Spectre · [uncredited] · ss Belgravia December 1874

177 · Twelve O’Clock, Noon · [uncredited] · ss London Society August 1877

186 · The Story of Clifford House · [uncredited] · nv The Mistletoe Bough 1878

210 · The Ghost in the Bank of England · [uncredited] · nv London Society Christmas 1879

248 · The Carved Mantelpiece of Granton Hall · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells August 1882

256 · The Invisible Hand · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) September 1884

260 · The Old Lady in Black · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1894

266 · Seen by the Coppice · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) March 1896

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 4 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, February 5, 2019, 978-0-9929828-7-4, £8.99, 336pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Edward Bulwer-Lytton] by Henry William Pickersgill from 1831)
This volume spans the years 1835 to 1869.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_1 · The Decay of the British Ghost · F. Anstey · fa Longman’s Magazine January 1884

22 · The Gray Champion · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine January 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy”

30 · The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh [The Purcell Papers] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Dublin University Magazine March 1838, uncredited.

53 · Guests from Gibbet Island · Washington Irving · ss The Knickerbocker October 1839

64 · Ghost Gossips at Blakesley House · William Mudford · ss Bentley’s Miscellany May 1841, as by The Author of “Stephen Dugard”

81 · The Grimsby Ghost · Thomas Hood · ss The New Monthly Magazine August 1842

97 · The Miniature · John Yonge Akerman · ss Bentley’s Miscellany April 1844, as by Paul Pindar

105 · The Legend of the Weeping Chamber · Bayle St. John · ss Household Words #91, December 20 1851, uncredited.

113 · The Ghost of Pit Pond · Dudley Costello · ss Household Words #237, October 7 1854, uncredited.

126 · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited.

143 · The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber · Charles Dickens (with Wilkie Collins) · ex from “The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices”, anonymously, Household Words October 3 1857 (+4), uncredited.

161 · The Yellow Gown · George John Whyte-Melville · ss Fraser’s Magazine October 1858

184 · The Ghost’s Forfeits · James Hain Friswell · ss Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies by Hain Friswell, Richard Bentley, 1858

195 · The Haunted and the Haunters · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, as “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain”, uncredited.

232 · Experiences of Farthing Lodge · Thomas Wilkinson Speight · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited.

247 · The Painted Room at Blackston Manor · John Berwick Harwood · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited.

266 · The Spectral Coach of Blackadon · Thomas Quiller Couch · ss Popular Romances of the West of England: First Series by Robert Hunt, John Camden Hotten, 1865

273 · The Botathen Ghost · Robert Stephen Hawker · ss All the Year Round May 18 1867

283 · The Ghosts at the Grange · George Manville Fenn · ss Original Penny Readings by George Maville Fenn, George Routledge & Sons, 1867

291 · The Shadow of a Shade · Tom Hood · ss Bow Bells Christmas 1869

306 · Uncle Cornelius, His Story · George MacDonald · ss St. Paul’s Magazine January 1869

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 5 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 17, 2019, 978-0-9929828-8-1, £8.99, 263pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Sir Richard Francis Burton] by Sir Frederic Leighton from 1875)
This volume spans the years 1872 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_1 · Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar The Saturday Review of Literature January 6 1877

20 · No Living Voice · Thomas Street Millington · ss Temple Bar April 1872, uncredited.

30 · Lady Kitty · Walter Besant & James Rice · ss Once a Week Christmas 1872; this follows the slightly revised text from The Case of Mr. Lucraft & Other Tales by Besant & Rice, Chatto & Windus, 1877.

45 · The Ghostly Rental · Henry James · nv Scribner’s Monthly September 1876

78 · The Transferred Ghost · Frank Richard Stockton · ss The Century Magazine May 1882

89 · An Apparition · Guy de Maupassant · ss Romance February 1891
translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883).

96 · Selecting a Ghost · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv London Society December 1883

113 · No. 11 Welham Square · Edward Masey · ss The Cornhill Magazine May 1885

125 · The House of Strange Stories · Andrew Lang · ss In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, Kegan Paul, 1886

137 · By Word of Mouth · Rudyard Kipling · vi The Civil and Military Gazette June 10 1887

141 · A Set of Chessmen · Richard Marsh · ss The Cornhill Magazine April 1890, uncredited.

159 · The Haunted Mill · Jerome K. Jerome · ss The Wave February 21 1891

163 · The Haunted Station · Hume Nisbet · nv The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892

183 · Pallinghurst Barrow · Grant Allen · nv The Illustrated London News November 28 1892

202 · The Man Who Was Not on the Passenger List · Robert Barr · ss In a Steamer Chair and Other Shipboard Stories by Robert Barr, Cassell, 1892

208 · The Saving of a Soul · Sir Richard Francis Burton · ss The Life of Captain Sir R.F. Burton by Lady Burton, London, 1893

214 · No. 252 Rue M. le Prince · Ralph Adams Cram · nv Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895

228 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · nv The Idler March 1896

237 · Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story · Sabine Baring-Gould · nv The English Illustrated Magazine December 1897

248 · The Haunted Burglar · William Chambers Morrow · ss Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine July 1897

253 · The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit · Barry Pain · ss Black & White May 7 1898

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 6 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, June 8, 2020, 978-0-9929828-9-8, £10.99, 355pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Mary Elizabeth Braddon] by William Powell Frith from 1865)
This volume spans the years 1854 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_2 · A Plea for Old Bogey · [uncredited] · ar Sharpe’s London Magazine April 1863

27 · The Sixth Poor Traveller · Eliza Lynn Linton · ss Household Words Christmas 1854, uncredited.

39 · The Italian’s Story · Catherine Crowe · nv Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858

56 · Bring Me a Light! · Jane Margaret Hooper · nv Once a Week January 1861, as by J. M. H.

80 · The Eleventh of March · Amelia B. Edwards · ss A Welcome, Emily Faithfull, 1863

88 · The Haunted Grange · Frances Browne · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited.

98 · The Ghost at the Rath · Rosa Mulholland · ss All the Year Round April 14 1866, uncredited.

117 · The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar February 1868

128 · Reality, or Delusion? [Johnny Ludlow] · Ellen Wood · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1868, as by Johnny Ludlow

144 · Lady Farquhar’s Old Lady, A True Ghost Story · Mary Louisa Molesworth · ss Tinsley’s Magazine December 1873

158 · The Pride of the Corbyns · Isabella Banks · nv The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1875

184 · At Ravenholme Junction · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1876, uncredited.
attributed to Penn on stylistic grounds alone.

193 · The Shadow in the Corner · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · nv All the Year Round Summer 1879

213 · The Open Door · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine #795, January 1882, uncredited.

255 · The Invisible Tenants of Rushmere · Florence Marryat · nv (r)

283 · The Last of Squire Ennismore · Charlotte Riddell · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper Christmas 1886

290 · Let Loose · Mary Cholmondeley · nv Temple Bar April 1890

306 · The Prior’s Cell · Darley Dale · ss Belgravia March 1892; subtitled “A Ghost Story”.

314 · The Shadow on the Blind · Louisa Baldwin · nv The Cornhill Magazine September 1894, uncredited.

335 · The Tyburn Ghost · Wilhelmina FitzClarence · ss Ghostly Tales by The Countess of Munster, Hutchinson, 1896

342 · The Summoning of Arnold · Alice Perrin · ss East of Suez by A. Perrin, Anthony Treherne, 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 7 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 9, 2020, 978-0-9929828-3-6, £8.99, 314pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Sabine Baring-Gould] by Sydney Carter from 1920)
This volume spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_1 · Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Littell’s Living Age February 1865

23 · The Wedding-Ring · Miles Gerald Keon · ss The Illustrated London News December 19 1857; subtitled “A Ghost Story”.

39 · All Alone on Christmas Day · James Hain Friswell · ss Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies by Hain Friswell, Richard Bentley, 1858

46 · The Ghost in the Clock Room · Hesba Stretton · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1859, uncredited.

61 · The Ghost in the Double Room · George Augustus Sala · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1859, uncredited.

75 · The Spectre’s Visit · Anne Sarah Bushby · ss The New Monthly Magazine January 1859

86 · Glámr · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas by Sabine Baring-Gould, Smith Elder and Co., 1863

99 · The Ghost Detective · Mark Lemon · ss The London Journal Christmas 1866

102 · Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning · Charlotte Riddell · ss London Society Christmas 1867

121 · The Brown Lady · Frances Cashel Hoey · na Belgravia March 1869

171 · The Phantom Flash · William Wilthew Fenn · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870; subtitled “A Christmas Mystery”.

180 · Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House · Clara Venn · ss St. James’s Magazine December 1878

192 · The Ghost of Charlotte Cray · Florence Marryat · nv Judy’s Annual 1879

210 · The Curse of the Catafalques · F. Anstey · nv The Cornhill Magazine August 1882, uncredited.

241 · “Number Ninety” · Bithia Mary Croker · ss Chapman’s Magazine December 1895

250 · A Mysterious Portrait · Mark Rutherford · ss The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford by Mark Rutherford, Trübner, 1881

258 · The Spectre of Barrochan · J. E. P. Muddock · ss Stories Weird and Wonderful by J. E. Muddock, Chatto & Windus, 1889

272 · The Old Portrait · Hume Nisbet · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper February 22 1896

277 · Old Applejoy’s Ghost · Frank Richard Stockton · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly December 1897; subtitled “A Christmas Story”.

292 · Jerry Bundler · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Windsor Magazine December 1897

300 · Bills, M.D. · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Brooklyn Life December 1898

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 8 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 21, 2020, 978-1-83826-890-9, £9.99, 308pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu])
This volume contains stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1838 and 1895.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_4 · The Comparative Study of Ghost Stories · Andrew Lang · ar The Nineteenth Century April 1885

24 · The Silver Lady · [uncredited] · nv The Keepsake 1838

52 · The Haunted Brig · [uncredited] · ss Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance February 1841

57 · A Night in a Haunted House · Henry Ferris, uncredited · nv Dublin University Magazine May 1848

89 · The Story of an Organ · [uncredited] · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine July 1851

97 · The Sword of Mauley · William D. O’Connor, uncredited · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1854

119 · The Miser’s Curse. A Veritable Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1857

131 · An Alibi · [uncredited] · ss Once a Week August 3 1861; subtitled “A Real Experience”.

139 · Bolden Tower · [uncredited] · ss The Musical Monthly and Repertoire of Literature, Drama and the Arts July 1865

147 · Falconest · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

162 · The Spirit’s Whisper · Sheridan Le Fanu, uncredited · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

177 · Doctor Feversham’s Story · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

189 · The Ghost of Stanton Hall · [uncredited] · ss The New Monthly Magazine January 1868

214 · A Spirit’s Tale; or Aunt Ella’s Story · [uncredited] · ss Bentley’s Miscellany July 1868

221 · Le Vert Galant · [uncredited] · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1870

228 · The Bridal of La Guillotiere · [uncredited] · ss London Society Christmas 1875, as by O. S. T. D.

240 · The Ghost of Aldrum Hall · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1880

262 · Not Yet Solved · Ellen Wood ,[?], uncredited · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1886

270 · The Château de Keronel: A True Story · Ellen Wood ,[?], uncredited · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1887

284 · The Weird Violin · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1893

290 · The Last Saturday in August · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) September 1895

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 9 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 7, 2021, 978-1-83826-891-6, £10.99, 378pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Henry James] by John Singer Sargent from 1913)
This volume contains stories published between 1841 and 1899.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_1 · The Spook in Current Literature · Elizabeth McL. Gould Rowland · ar The Congregationalist March 16 1899

19 · Ghost Gossips at Blakesley House · William Mudford · ss Bentley’s Miscellany June 1841, as by The Author of “Stephen Dugard”

38 · George Child’s Second Love · John Yonge Akerman · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1843, as by Paul Pindar

47 · The Old House in Chancery · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal January 1851

59 · The Poor Clare · Elizabeth Gaskell · na Household Words December 13 1856 (+2), uncredited.

112 · The Dutch Officer’s Story · Catherine Crowe · ss Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858

121 · The Haunted House · Emerson Bennett · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art March 1859, as “A Ghost Story”

130 · The Four-Fifteen Express · Amelia B. Edwards · nv Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867, 1866

157 · The Romance of Certain Old Clothes · Henry James · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1868, uncredited.

176 · The Drummer Ghost · John William De Forest · nv The Atlantic Monthly July 1869, uncredited.

197 · The Haunted Enghenio · John Gladwyn Jebb · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1872

207 · Her Last Appearance · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1876, as by The Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret”, etc.

222 · The Hand on the Latch · William Wilthew Fenn · ss Time September 1881

234 · The White Woman of Slaith · Isabella Banks · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1881

254 · On Board the “Eagle” · G. L. Worrall · ss The Argosy (UK) June 1882, uncredited.

261 · Mrs. Zant and the Ghost · Wilkie Collins · nv My Lady’s Money by Wilkie Collins, Tauchnitz, 1879, as “The Ghost’s Touch”

295 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885

316 · The Case of Lady Lukestan · Lettice Galbraith · nv Short Stories April 1893

336 · Lost Hearts · M. R. James · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1895

346 · The Crimson Portrait · Wilhelmina FitzClarence · ss The Lady’s Realm January 1897

359 · The Spectre of Rislip Abbey · J. E. P. Muddock · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899, as by Dick Donovan

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 10 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 8, 2021, 978-1-83826-892-3, £8.99, 284pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of William Waldorf Astor] by Hubert Von Herkomer)
This volume spans the years 1838 to 1898.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_1 · The Last Thing in Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Once a Week January 1862

28 · The Ghost and the Bone-Setter [The Purcell Papers] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine January 1838, uncredited.

37 · The Banquet-Hall of Death · William Mudford · ss Bentley’s Miscellany March 1842, as by The Author of “Stephen Dugard”

45 · A Tale Told by the Fireside · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal May 1849

55 · A Mysterious Visitor · Ellen Wood · nv Bentley’s Miscellany October 1857

76 · The Haunted House · Margaret Verne · ss Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion September 1859

84 · Eveline’s Visitant · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss Belgravia January 1867

95 · Hu Hirwan’s Ghost · Samuel Williams · ss Overland Monthly January 1869

101 · The Ghost in the Mill · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1870, uncredited.

112 · Sister Johanna’s Story · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1872

126 · The Veiled Portrait · James Grant · ss London Society Christmas 1874

138 · The Beresford Apparition · Frederick George Lee · ss Glimpses of the Supernatural by Frederick George Lee, H.S. King, 1875

145 · A Sworn Statement · Emma Frances Dawson · ss The Wasp Christmas 1881

154 · The Rival Ghosts · Brander Matthews · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1884

172 · The Ebony Frame · Edith Nesbit · nv Longman’s Magazine October 1891

183 · Her Great-Grandmother’s Ghost · Thomas Nelson Page · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1893

190 · The Invisible Playmate · William Canton · ss Good Words May 1893

202 · The Ghosts of Austerlitz · William Waldorf Astor · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1893

213 · The Phantom Model · Hume Nisbet · ss The Haunted Station by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White & Co., 1894

225 · The Library Window · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1896

266 · The Lady Tantivy · Rosa Mulholland · ss Temple Bar January 1898

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 11 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 4, 2022, 978-1-83826-893-0, £8.99, 287pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe] by Alanson Fisher)
This volume spans the years 1846 to 1901 and includes stories from solely American female authors.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_3 · Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar The Flag of Our Union March 1861

23 · The Haunted House in Georgia · Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet · ss Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine November 1846

32 · The Haunted House · Nancy Thorning Munroe · ss The Flag of Our Union April 1854

43 · My Visitation · Rose Terry Cooke · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1858, uncredited.

62 · The Deserted Hut · Jane Goodwin Austin · ss The Flag of Our Union November 1865; subtitled “A Ghost Story”.

74 · Kentucky’s Ghost · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1868, uncredited.

90 · The Strange Passengers · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss Lippincott’s Magazine of Literature, Science and Education June 1868

108 · Tom Toothacre’s Ghost Story · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories (var. 1) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Houghton Mifflin, 1881

115 · The Story of a Shadow · Rebecca Harding Davis · nv The Galaxy April 1872

139 · The Walking Boy · Clara Florida Guernsey · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1873, uncredited.

157 · The Haunted House by the Mill · Clara Le Clerc · ss Ballou’s Monthly Magazine December 1875; subtitled “A Texas Story”.

171 · The American Ghost · Lucretia Peabody Hale · ss Swinton’s Story-Teller #8, December 5 1883

182 · On the Stroke of the Clock · Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton · ss The Continent Weekly Magazine August 13 1884

193 · The Gray Man · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

200 · The Giant Wistaria · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine June 1891

209 · The Soul of Rose Dédé · Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1892

219 · The Fear That Walks by Noonday · Willa Sibert Cather · ss Sombrero 1895

230 · A Transient · Annie Trumbull Slosson · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1898

244 · The Shape of Fear · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia W. Peattie, Macmillan US, 1898

250 · The Path of the Storm · Marie Van Vorst · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1899

268 · The Ordeal of Sister Cuthbert · Elizabeth Garver Jordan · ss Tales of the Cloister by Elizabeth G. Jordan, Harper, 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 12 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 4, 2022, 978-1-83826-894-7, £9.99, 317pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Richard Harris Barham])
This volume spans the years 1837 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_3 · Family Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Every Saturday January 1868

24 · The Spectre of Tappington · Richard Harris Barham · nv Bentley’s Miscellany February 1837, as by Thomas Ingoldsby

51 · The Old Bell-Ringer’s Story · Mark Lemon · ss The Illustrated London News December 20 1856, as by M. L.

55 · The Dead Man’s Story · James Hain Friswell · ss Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies by Hain Friswell, Richard Bentley, 1858

73 · Horror: A True Tale · John Berwick Harwood · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1861, uncredited.

95 · The Steel Mirror · William Wilthew Fenn · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867; subtitled “A Christmas Dream”.

105 · Haunted by Spirits · George Manville Fenn · ss Christmas Penny Readings by George Manville Fenn, Routledge, 1867

114 · A Strange Christmas Game · Charlotte Riddell · ss The Broadway January 1868

124 · How We Parted · Annie Hall Thomas · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1869

141 · Christmas Eve in Beach House · Eliza Lynn Linton · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870

158 · A Three-Cornered Ghost · Charles Henry Ross · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870

176 · Number Two, Melrose Square · Theo Gift · nv All the Year Round December 6 1879 (+1)

198 · Old Vanderhaven’s Will · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1880

223 · The Old House in Vauxhall Walk · Charlotte Riddell · nv Home Christmas 1880

241 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885

258 · The Ghost of Christmas Eve · James Matthew Barrie · ss The St. James’s Gazette January 3 1889

261 · The Ghost of the Blue Chamber · Jerome K. Jerome · ss Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome, The Leadenhall Press, 1891

272 · Thurlow’s Christmas Story · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly December 15 1894

287 · The Baron’s Room · Ivy Hooper · ss Lucifer February 1896

295 · Their Dear Little Ghost · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Outlook October 29 1898

301 · The Ghost in the Sedan Chair · Marie Corelli · ss A Christmas Greeting by Marie Corelli, Methuen, 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 13 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, May 25, 2023, 978-1-83826-895-4, £8.99, 241pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Charles Dickens] by Daniel Maclise from 1839)
This volume contains ghost stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1841 and 1900.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_2 · On the Threatened Extinction of Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar Sharpe’s London Magazine January 1856

18 · The Heart and the Key · [uncredited] · ss Bentley’s Miscellany July 1841, as by Dalton; subtitled “A Tale of the Fens”.

37 · Haunted · [uncredited] · ss Sharpe’s London Magazine March 1860, as by J. A.

59 · The Demon Spectre · [uncredited] · ss Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper March 6 1861; subtitled “A True Ghost Story of Virginia”.

70 · Midnight at Marshland Grange · George Augustus Sala ,[?], uncredited · ss Once a Week November 21 1863

80 · Mrs. M. · [uncredited] · ss All the Year Round August 10 1867

85 · “Tremewen Grange” · [uncredited] · ss Once a Week March 2 1867, as by M. A.

92 · An American Ghost · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

109 · Mrs. Brown’s Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

115 · The Phantom Fourth · [uncredited] · ss A Stable for Nightmares, Tinsley Brothers, 1867

128 · The Dead Sister · [uncredited] · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art January 30 1869, as by “A German Physician”

135 · The Tregethan’s Curse: or, The Weird Woman · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells Annual 1871

153 · An Old Woman’s Story · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells Novelettes June 28 1871

157 · The Haunted Mill · [uncredited] · ss The London Reader February 14 1874

164 · Stronger Than Death · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) February 1876, as by E. C. D.

177 · An Extra Passenger · [uncredited] · ss (r)

185 · Faithful Unto Death · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1887

201 · My Uncle’s Clock · [uncredited] · ss Macmillan’s Magazine January 1888

216 · The Cupboard at Wyncope Manor · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells Novelettes September 18 1889, as by G. A. E.

221 · A Ghostly Adventure on Exmoor · [uncredited] · ss Belgravia July 1891

229 · The Phantom Picture · [uncredited] · ss The (London) Evening News July 13 1899; subtitled “A Complete Tale”.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 14 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, May 25, 2023, 978-1-83826-896-1, £9.99, 338pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Ellen Wood] by Joseph Sydney Willis Hodges)
This volume contains stories published in the first half of the Victorian age (1837-1869).

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_1 · The Supernatural in Fiction · [uncredited] · ar The Sheffield Independent March 31 1896

20 · The Blind Ghost-Seer · Abraham Elder · ss Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight by Abraham Elder, Simpkin Marshall, 1839

26 · The Souls of the Drowned · William Henry Farn · ss The Metropolitan Magazine February 1841; subtitled “A Legend of the Sea”.

36 · The Haunted House in Yorkshire · Dudley Costello · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine January 1845

50 · The Watcher · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Dublin University Magazine November 1847, uncredited.

88 · La Femme Noir · Anna Maria Hall · ss Sharpe’s London Magazine November 1848, as “The Dark Lady”

98 · The Ghost of the Late Mr. James Barber · William Henry Wills · ss Household Words #4, April 20 1850, uncredited.; subtitled “A Yarn Ashore”.

106 · The Punishment of Gina Montani · Ellen Wood · ss The New Monthly Magazine December 1851

127 · The Lumber Room · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal March 1851

150 · M. Anastasius · Dinah Maria Mulock · nv Household Words #261, March 24 1855, as “A Ghost Story”, uncredited.

180 · A Night in a Cathedral · William Fulford · ss Oxford and Cambridge Magazine May 1856

190 · The Haunted Ship · Anne Sarah Bushby · ss The New Monthly Magazine June 1857

204 · A Ghost Story · Ada Trevanion · ss Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance October 1857

215 · The Lady in the Mirror · George MacDonald · ex from Phantastes, Smith, Elder, 1858

235 · The Girl with the Golden Hair · Eliza Craven Green · ss Le Follet December 1860

242 · The Ghost of Gashleigh Court · George Augustus Sala · ss Temple Bar November 1863

262 · The Story of the House in Garden Reach · Frances Browne · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited.

270 · The Underground Ghost · John Berwick Harwood · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited.

285 · The Spectral Rout · Frances Power Cobbe · nv Shilling Magazine December 1865

307 · No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866

320 · The Scene-Painter’s Wife · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1869, as by The Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret”, etc.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 15 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, November 29, 2019, £1.99, ebook, an)
This volume contains stories published in the second half of the Victorian age (1871 to 1900).

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 15 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 21, 2023, 978-1-83826-897-8, £8.99, 281pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Robert Barr] by James Scott Stewart)
Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2019) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published in the second half of the Victorian age (1871 to 1900).

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_2 · Ghosts of Modern Fiction · [uncredited] · ex from “Spectres in Poetry and Fiction”, The Musical Monthly and Repertoire of Literature, Drama and the Arts March 1864

23 · The Spectre Hand · James Grant · ss London Society Christmas 1871

35 · Fred Temple’s Warning · Ellen Wood · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1873, as by Johnny Ludlow

59 · The Haunted House on Cambridge Common · Hezekiah Butterworth · ss Potter’s American Monthly July 1878

68 · Miss Morier’s Visions · Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1879, uncredited.

82 · The Piper’s Ghost · Isabella Banks · ss Through the Night by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, Heywood & Son, 1882

107 · Betty’s Visions · Rhoda Broughton · nv The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post December 1883

137 · A Dead Man’s Face · Frederick John Fargus · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1884, as by Hugh Conway

153 · The Brunswick Ghost · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss Cassell’s Family Magazine May 1887

160 · The Philosophy of Relative Existences · Frank Richard Stockton · ss The Century Magazine August 1892

167 · Share and Share Alike · Robert Barr · ss Black & White #24, July 18 1891

172 · The Studio · Robert Blatchford · ss Fantasias by Robert Blatchford, Clarion, 1895; subtitled “A Modern Ghost Story”.

182 · Old Gervais · Mary Louisa Molesworth · ss Studies and Stories by Mary Louisa Molesworth, Innes, 1893; subtitled “A Curious Experience”.

198 · Carleton Barker, First and Second · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Scribner’s Magazine October 1893

216 · The Double-Bedded Room · John Douglas Campbell · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine September 1894

225 · St. Martin’s Eve · Jeremiah Curtin · ss Tales of the Fairies and Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin, 1895

230 · A “Mauvais Quart d’Heure” · Wilhelmina FitzClarence · ss Ghostly Tales by The Countess of Munster, Hutchinson, 1896

240 · The Voices of the Empty House · G. Villari · ss The Argosy (UK) February 1896

245 · The Striding Place · Gertrude Atherton · ss The Speaker June 20 1896, as “The Twins”

251 · The Shadows of the Dead · Louis Becke · ss Pacific Tales by Louis Becke, J.B. Lippincott, 1896

265 · The Creaking Board · Bithia Mary Croker · ss Cassell’s Magazine February 1912

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 16 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 23, 2019, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Margaret Oliphant] by Frederick Augustus Sandys from 1881)
This volume contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 16 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 21, 2023, 978-1-83826-898-5, £9.99, 318pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Margaret Oliphant] by Frederick Augustus Sandys from 1881)
Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2019) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_4 · Concerning Ghost Stories · William Samuel Lilly · ar The Nineteenth Century and After March 1902

25 · A Real Country Ghost Story · Albert Richard Smith · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1846

34 · The Pickled Ghost · [uncredited] · ss Yale Literary Magazine January 1847; subtitled “Christmas Eve”.

42 · The Phantom Face · Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton · ss My Third Book by Louise Chandler Moulton, Harper & Bros., 1859

52 · Dimsleigh Grange · Emma Watts Phillips · ss Bow Bells December 1865

62 · A Story Told in a Church · Ada Buisson · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1867

77 · My Christmas Mystery · William Kingston Sawyer · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1868

91 · The Phantom Knell · [uncredited] · ss Boys of England January 1870; subtitled “The Ghost of Wentworth Hall”.

116 · The Christmas Club · Edward Eggleston · ss Scribner’s Monthly January 1873

127 · The Hidden Shrift · Charles Maurice Davies · ss The Sheffield Independent December 19 1874

150 · An Unsolved Mystery · Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey · ss The Argosy (UK) May 1875, as by E. Owens Blackburne

157 · The Dead Man of Varley Grange · Elizabeth Anna Hart · ss 1878, uncredited.

171 · Earthbound · Margaret Oliphant · nv Fraser’s Magazine January 1880

207 · In Very Strange Company · Henry Frith · ss The Lichfield Mercury December 26 1884

231 · A Speakin’ Ghost · Annie Trumbull Slosson · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1890

253 · The Face with the Brown Spots · John Ferguson Nisbet · ss The Leamington Spa Courier December 23 1893

266 · The Deserted Kingdom · Frank Fullerton Brumback · ss The Outing Magazine January 1893

275 · The Demon Spell · Hume Nisbet · ss The Haunted Station by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White & Co., 1894

281 · The Black Lady of Doriscourt · Mabel Collins · ss The Birmingham Post December 1894

299 · Black Rudolph’s Mass · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1896

304 · My First Ghost · M. E. Greene · ss All Ireland Review December 21 1901

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 17 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 2, 2020, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Louise Kirby Piatt] by George Peter Alexander Healy from 1855)
This volume contains stories published between 1855 and 1900, all by obscure, little-known or unidentified female authors.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 17 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 26, 2024, 978-1-73850-671-2, £9.99, 289pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Louise Kirby Piatt] by George Peter Alexander Healy from 1855)
Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2020) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published between 1855 and 1900, all by obscure, little-known or unidentified female authors.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_4 · The Supernatural in Current Fiction · [uncredited] · ar The Dundee Courier March 7 1892

16 · The Haunted House · Louise Kirby Piatt · ss The National Era December 1855, as by Mrs. Bell Smith

28 · The Ghost of Little Jacques · Anna M. Hoyt · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1863, uncredited.

52 · The White Lady · Marian Carruthers · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art March 1864

58 · The Ghost of Barstone Hall · Mary Morrison · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art #940, June 16 1866

63 · What Did Miss Darrington See? · Emma B. Cobb · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1870, uncredited.

86 · The Haunted Wherry · Esther Serle Kenneth · ss Ballou’s Monthly Magazine February 1871

92 · No. 289—A Vision · Mrs. Frank McCarthy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1873, uncredited.

106 · Chantry Manor-House · Elizabeth Bedell Benjamin · ss Belgravia January 1876, as by Mrs. Hartley

121 · The Pin Ghost · Elizabeth T. Corbett · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1876, uncredited.

126 · A Legend of All-Hallow Eve · Georgiana S. Hull · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1879, uncredited.

153 · The Ghost of the Treasure-Chamber · Emily Arnold · nv Time December 1886

175 · The Beckside Boggle · Alice Rea · ss The Beckside Boggle by Alice Rea, T. Fisher Unwin, 1886

190 · Back from the Frozen Pole · Ellen L. Dorsey · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1887

207 · The Copeland Collection · Margaret Crosby · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1889

224 · The Mystery of Castle Crome · Sarah Catherine Budd · ss London Society January 1893

235 · The Shadow on the Moor · Lucy Hardy · ss Newcastle Weekly Courant September 1895

247 · The Seaweed Room · Clarice Irene Clinghan · ss The Black Cat June 1896

252 · A Strange Experience · Miriam Forester · ss The Argosy (UK) February 1899

261 · A Futile Ghost · Mary Reynolds · nv Crampton’s Magazine February 1899

277 · The House of the Seven Spirits · Cara Berkeley · ss The Argosy (UK) March 1900

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 18 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 2, 2020, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Guy de Maupassant] by Auguste Feyen-Perrin from 1876)
This volume contains stories published anonymously in Britain between 1842 and 1898.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 18 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 26, 2024, 978-1-73850-672-9, £8.99, 264pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Guy de Maupassant] by Auguste Feyen-Perrin from 1876)
Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2020) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published anonymously in Britain between 1842 and 1898.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_3 · Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar Belfast News-Letter Christmas 1896

19 · The Phantom Hag · [uncredited] · ss Twenty-Five Ghost Stories ed. W. Bob Holland, J.S. Ogilvie, 1904

22 · Legend of the Golden Leg · Thomas Miller, uncredited · ss The Odd Fellow May 1842

43 · The Death-Seer · [uncredited] · ss Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany December 1844

66 · The Phantom Face · [uncredited] · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine January 1845

72 · A Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss Illustrated Sailor’s Magazine March 1845, as by H. J. G.

77 · Apparitions · [uncredited] · ss Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country August 1846

88 · The God-Forsaken · [uncredited] · ss Ladies’ Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance September 1850

99 · The Ghost’s Night-Cap · [uncredited] · ss Once a Week January 7 1860, as by K.

115 · The Hall-Spectre · [uncredited] · ss Sharpe’s London Magazine December 1861

136 · The Haunted Lodge · [uncredited] · ss Sixpenny Magazine June 1866

147 · Eleanor · [uncredited] · ss The London Reader January 25 1868, as by H. F. G.

160 · Not a Dream · [uncredited] · ss Temple Bar September 1869

172 · The Mystic Handwriting · [uncredited] · ss Tinsley’s Magazine January 1870

188 · The Haunted House · [uncredited] · ss The Ladies’ Treasury and Treasury of Literature February 1870

195 · A Desperate Run · [uncredited] · ss The Mistletoe Bough Christmas 1878

205 · The Chess-Player · H. Greenhough Smith, uncredited · ss Temple Bar September 1885

228 · The Old House in Covent Garden · [uncredited] · ss Every Week: A First Class Journal of General Literature March 6 1889, as by E. B.

237 · The Brand of Cain · [uncredited] · ss Dreamland and Ghostland, Volume I, George Redway, 1887

248 · The Grange Mystery · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1896

254 · A Traveller’s Warning · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1898

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 19 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 23, 2020, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Jerome K. Jerome] by Philip Alexius de László from 1921)
This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1839 and 1900, and all set at or around the Christmas period.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 19 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, December 18, 2024, 978-1-73850-673-6, £9.99, 275pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Jerome K. Jerome] by Philip Alexius de László from 1921)
Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2020) ghost anthology. This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1839 and 1900, and all set at or around the Christmas period.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_3 · About Ghost Stories for Christmas · [uncredited] · ar English Society December 1870

30 · The Dead Man’s Race · William Jerdan · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1839

34 · The Ghost in the Top-Story · Frances Browne · ss Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1864, uncredited.

48 · The Ghost of the Hollow Field · Ellen Wood · ss Newry Commercial Telegraph December 25 1867

71 · Asher’s Last Hour · George Manville Fenn · ss Christmas Penny Readings by George Manville Fenn, Routledge, 1867

84 · Walnut-Tree House · Charlotte Riddell · nv The Illustrated London News December 28 1878

104 · Christmas at Cairnforth · Kitty Clover · ss The Brief December 1879

116 · The Wraith of Barnjum · F. Anstey · ss Temple Bar March 1879

127 · Mansleigh Grange · Frances Collins · ss Santa Claus: Dupuy’s Christmas Annual 1881

134 · Goblet or Goblin · Edward Bradbury · ss Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald December 1882

144 · The Pearl Princess · Augustus Cheltenham · ss Berrow’s Worcester Journal December 1882

155 · What Was He? · Theo Gift · nv All the Year Round Christmas 1883

174 · Ould Skinner · Ethel Greene · ss Weekly Irish Times December 18 1886

187 · Our Ghost Party · Jerome K. Jerome · in Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome, The Leadenhall Press, 1891, as “Introductory”

192 · The Antique Bedstead · William Wilthew Fenn · ss The Penny Illustrated Magazine December 1891

198 · The Wicked Editor’s Christmas Dream · Alice Mary Vince · ss Tamworth Herald December 23 1893

203 · Lady Dorothy · Ralli West · ss Berrow’s Worcester Journal December 1894

218 · The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly December 14 1895

226 · The Blue Room · Lettice Galbraith · ss Macmillan’s Magazine October 1897

247 · Out on the Leads · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss Leeds Mercury December 1900

257 · Ghosts Who Became Famous · Carolyn Wells · ss The Century Magazine December 1900

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 20 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, March 31, 2021, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [self-portrait] by Thomas Frank Heaphy from 1831)
This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1838 and 1900.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 20 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 24, 2025, 978-1-73850-674-3, £10.99, 349pp, tp, an, cover: [self-portrait] by Thomas Frank Heaphy from 1831)
This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1838 and 1900. Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2021) anthology.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_4 · Conventional Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal May 26 1894

21 · The Haunted House · Emma Whitehead · ss The Court Magazine March 1838

42 · Schalken the Painter [The Purcell Papers] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Dublin University Magazine May 1839, as “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter”, uncredited.

66 · The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington · Charles Ollier · ss Bentley’s Miscellany November 1841

74 · The Ghost-Seer of Tresillion · Charles Wooley · ss Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine November 1851, as by C. A. M. W.

80 · Mr. H’s Own Narrative · Thomas Frank Heaphy · ss All the Year Round October 5 1861, uncredited.

97 · The Tread of Invisible Feet · Justin McCarthy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1871, uncredited.

108 · The Haunted Rock · Charles F. F. Woods · ss Belgravia January 1871

123 · What Was Seen by Juan Valdez in Saltillo · Thomas Allibone Janvier · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1884

131 · The Dream House · Margaret Raine Hunt · ss Longman’s Magazine June 1887

149 · The Green Lady [Mr. Peregrine] · Walter Herries Pollock · ss Longman’s Magazine November 1887

165 · A Night at Ouseley Manor · Katharine Sarah Macquoid · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1890

188 · A Faded Scapular · Francis Davis Millet · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1891

202 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891

221 · The White Priest · Helene Gingold · ss Seven Stories by Helene Gingold, 1893

239 · The Empty Picture Frame · Louisa Baldwin · ss The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, Dent, 1895

254 · At the Dip of the Road · Mary Louisa Molesworth · ss Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper January 1895

260 · A White Blot: The Story of a Picture · Henry van Dyke · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1895

277 · The Old House on Romney Marsh · Hezekiah Butterworth · ss The Hartford Courant June 1897

299 · Trooper Thompson’s Information · Bithia Mary Croker · ss Jason and Other Stories by B. M. Croker, Chatto & Windus, 1899

305 · The Ghost of Eugene Aram · Henry Augustus Hering · ss The Windsor Magazine February 1900

318 · Index · [uncredited] · ix

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 21 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 7, 2021, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Lady Margaret Maxwell Fletcher-Vane] by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle)
This volume contains stories published mostly in America between 1852 and 1899.

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 21 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, April 25, 2025, 978-1-73850-675-0, £9.99, 292pp, tp, an, cover: [portrait of Lady Margaret Maxwell Fletcher-Vane] by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle)
Reprint (Wimbourne Books 2021) anthology. This volume contains stories published mostly in America between 1852 and 1899.

1 · Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_2 · An Apology for Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar The Evening Standard September 28 1899

18 · The Haunted Well · Margaret Casson · nv Ainsworth’s Magazine July 1852 (+2)

59 · The Phantom of the Bottomless Lake · Corolla Hiacynthia Criswell · vi Peterson’s Magazine March 1854

65 · The Legend of Starved Rock · Mary W. Janvrin · vi Peterson’s Magazine December 1856

70 · Willie Johnson’s Mother: A Ghost Story · Elizabeth Sheridan Carey · nv The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle May 1862

96 · A Dead Vashti · Louise Stockton · ss The Galaxy April 1877

104 · The Haunted Chamber · Sarah Dorr · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1878

111 · The Ghost of Morcar’s Tower · Mrs. McAlpine Leny · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1879

127 · Miss Pringle’s Neighbors · Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1887

144 · Thrilling Experience · Manda L. Crocker · ss The Milwaukee Journal February 1888

150 · “As Haggards of the Rock” · Mary Tappan Wright · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1890

173 · Duncan’s Ghost Story · Ada Marie Peck · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book August 1890

179 · The Soul of Marse Ralph · Mary A. P. Stansbury · ss New England Magazine November 1890

188 · Ignoto · Louise Clarkson Whitelock · ss A Mad Madonna and Other Stories by Louise Clarkson Whitelock, J. Knight Company, 1895; subtitled “A Story of Florence”.

207 · The Creeping Shadow · R. Pardepp · ss Belgravia October 1896

218 · Marm Phœbe’s Fortune · Edith Robinson · ss Penhallow Tales by Edith Robinson, Copeland and Day, 1896

231 · A Message from Beyond · Genevieve Thorndike Clark · ss The Arena April 1898

242 · The Passing of Cesare · Helen Pitkin · ss The Black Cat October 1898

252 · The Haunted Wardrobe · Margaret Vane · ss The Lady’s Realm October 1899

264 · The Blue Man · Mary Hartwell Catherwood · ss Mackinac and Lake Stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Harpers, 1899

274 · A South Carolina Ghost Story · Florence Howard Wingate · ss The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal May 20 1899

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 22 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 5, 2022, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Rudyard Kipling] by John Collier)
This volume contains stories published in America and Britain between 1845 and 1899.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_ · Ghostdom · [uncredited] · ar St. James’s Magazine November 1863

· The Monomaniac · Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet · ss United States Magazine and Democratic Review October 1845

· Ghost Stories · George Washington Peck · ss American Review October 1848

· George Whitmore’s Great-Uncle · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal September 1850

· The Monktons of Wincot Abbey · Wilkie Collins · na Fraser’s Magazine November 1855 (+1)

· The Sheep Farmer’s Story · Catherine Ann Crowe · nv Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858

· Four Stories · Edward Bulwer-Lytton (in error) · ts All the Year Round September 1861

· D’Outre Mort · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Galaxy November 15 1866

· Not a Doubt of It · William Morley Farrow · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1869

· Since I Died · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss Scribner’s Monthly February 1873, as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

· The Spectre of the Hemlock Gorge · Charles W. Jay · ss My New Home in Northern Michigan and Other Tales by Charles W. Jay, W.S. and E.W. Sharp, 1874

· Under the Sheer-Legs · Henry Tinson · ss St. James’s Christmas Annual 1875

· An Antiquary’s Ghost Story · Augustus Jessopp · vi The Athenaeum January 1880

· A Curious Experience [Johnny Ludlow] · Ellen Wood · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1883, as by Johnny Ludlow

· The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885

· A Dead Man’s Vengeance · William John Butterworth Bird · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine March 1888

· The Last of the Ghosts · Barrett Wendell · ss Scribner’s Magazine February 1888

· The Old House on the Cliff · William Wilthew Fenn · ss London Society December 1889

· Geordie Blair’s Luck · Birch Vye & Sydney Phelps · ss Belgravia April 1897

· The Piano Next Door · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia W. Peattie, Macmillan US, 1898

· Number 13 · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904

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