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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.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

· 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.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

· 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.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

· Out on the Leads · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss 1900

· 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

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 Wilkinson Peattie, Macmillan, 1898

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

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 23 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, June 8, 2023, £2.40, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Vernon Lee] by John Singer Sargent from 1881)
This volume contains stories by female authors published in America and Britain between 1842 and 1897.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_ · Book-Talk: Ghosts · Julian Hawthorne & H. C. Walsh · br Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine August 1890; given as by Hawthorne alone.

· The Necromancer, or, Ghost Versus Gramarye · Isabella Frances Romer · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1842

· The Haunted House · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal July 1852

· The Man-in-the-Moon’s Ghost Story · Rosa Almeida Chawner · ss Hits and Bits by Rosa Almeida Chawner, F. C. Wesdey, 1861

· Grandmother’s Story · Julia Bachope Goddard · ss Once a Week August 25 1866

· The Ghost of Russian Hill · Margaret Kerr Hosmer · ss The Lady’s Friend December 1868

· How Georgette Kept Tryst · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1879

· A Culture-Ghost; or, Winthrop’s Adventure · Vernon Lee · nv Fraser’s Magazine January 1881

· A Stray Reveler · Emma Frances Dawson · ss The Wasp December 23 1882; subtitled “The Picture Which Was a Prophesy”.

· “That Awful Face!” · Florence Marryat · ss The Weekly News December 1882

· The Ghost of Manibere Court · Louisa Grice Hutchinson · ss Temple Bar December 1884

· Miss Tweed’s Ghost Story: A Tale for the People · Sarah Doudney · ss The Sunday Times September 8 1889

· John Charrington’s Wedding · Edith Nesbit · ss Temple Bar September 1891

· Caulfield’s Crime · Alice Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892

· The Missing Model · Lettice Galbraith · ss New Ghost Stories by Lettice Galbraith, Ward Lock, 1893

· The Stout Wooer and the Haunted Room · A. M. Stein · ss Haunted House of Ben’s Hollow and Other Ghostly Stories by A. M. Stein, J. Elliott & Co., 1894

· The Prayer · Violet Hunt · nv Chapman’s Magazine December 1895, as “The Story of a Ghost”

· Whither Thou Goest · Katharine Lee Bates · ss The Chap-Book April 1896

· The Villa Lucienne · Ella D’Arcy · ss The Yellow Book July 1896

· My Fellow Travellers · Mary Angela Dickens · ss The Gentlewoman December 19 1896

· There and Here · Alice Brown · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1897

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