As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire it's the perfect time for
a dash of the supernatural...embrace the gloom with spine-chillers from Charles Dickens H.G.
Wells Edith Wharton and many more Do you believe in ghosts? Ghosts spirits spectres or
spooks we have always felt the presence of someone - or something - hovering in the darkest
corners of our imaginations. The great writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century
from Elizabeth Gaskell to Rudyard Kipling also produced some of the most influential ghost
stories ever written defining the genre for generations of writers to follow. Gathered in this
thrilling collection are some of the most iconic Victorian ghost stories from Charles
Dickens's 'The Signalman' to M.R. James's 'A Warning to the Curious' alongside more unexpected
contributions from masters of the form such as J.S. Le Fanu and H.G. Wells. You may think you
don't believe in ghosts but these stories will haunt you nonetheless.
