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 Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Hutchinson & Co., 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
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