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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, 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.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

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

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

· 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

· Ignoto · Louise Clarkson Whitelock · ss A Mad Madonna and Other Stories by Louise Clarkson Whitelock, J. Knight Company, 1895

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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