Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
| Book | The Old Nurse's Story |
| Editor | Michael Cox (2), R. A. Gilbert |
| Introduction by | Michael Cox (2), R. A. Gilbert |
| Cover Art by | John Atkinson Grimshaw |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Typeset by | Best-set Typesetter Ltd. |
| Printed by | Courier International |
| Copyright Holder (Compilation) | Michael Cox (2), R. A. Gilbert |
| Contributing Writer | Elizabeth Gaskell, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, J. Y. Akerman, Dinah Mulock Craik, Charles Dickens, R. S. Hawker, Rhoda Broughton, Henry James, Anonymous, Mrs. Henry Wood, George MacDonald, Tom Hood, Mary E. Braddon, Thomas Street Millington, Wilkie Collins, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Rudyard Kipling, B. M. Croker, E. Nesbit, Rosa Mulholland, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, Bernard Capes, F. G. Loring, Barry Pain, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, R. H. Benson, Perceval Landon, Algernon Blackwood |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Oxford |
| Copyright | 1991 |
| This Edition Published | 1991 |
| Pages / Font | 497 pages |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 91-2748 |
| ISBN | 019214202X |
| Barcode | 9780192142023 |
| Chapters | ix • Introduction, by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert 1 • The Old Nurse's Story, by Elizabeth Gaskell 19 • An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, by J. S. Le Fanu 37 • The Miniature, by J. Y. Akerman 44 • The Last House in C-- Street,s by Dinah Mulock 55 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt, by Charles Dickens 65 • The Botathen Ghost, by R. S. Hawker 74 • The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth, by Rhoda Broughton 83 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, by Henry James 100 • Pichon & Sons, of the Croic Rousse, by Anonymous 115 • Reality or Delusion?, by Mrs. Henry Wood 130 • Uncle Cornelius His Story, by George MacDonald 150 • The Shadow of a Shade, by Tom Hood 163 • At Chrighton Abbey, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 190 • No Living Voice, by Thomas Street Millington 198 • Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman, by Wilkie Collins 218 • The Story of Clifford House, by Anonymous 239 • Was it an Illusion?: A Parson's Story, by Amelia B. Edwards 256 • The Open Door, by Charlotte Riddell 283 • The Captain of the "Pole-star," by Arthur Conan Doyle 303 • The Body-Snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson 319 • The Story of the Rippling Train, by Mary Louisa Molesworth 328 • At the End of the Passage, by Rudyard Kipling 346 • "To Let," by B. M. Croker 360 • John Charrington's Wedding, by E. Nesbit 367 • The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly, by Rosa Mulholland 379 • The Man of Science, by Jerome K. Jerome 385 • Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, by M. R. James 396 • Jerry Bundler, by W. W. Jacobs 403 • An Eddy on the Floor, by Bernard Capes 431 • The Tomb of Sarah, by F. G. Loring 442 • The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit, by Barry Pain 445 • The Shadows on the Wall, by Mary E. Wilkins 459 • Father Macclesfield's Tale, by R. H. Benson 466 • Thurnley Abbey, by Perceval Landon 480 • The Kit-Bag, by Algernon Blackwood 490 • Sources 493 • Select Chronological Conspectus of Ghost Stories: 1840-1910 |
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