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 The Argus Christmas 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
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