The Victorian Ghost Story - Volume 1: The iconic ghost stories of English literature

Written by Elizabeth Gaskell, J Y Ackerman, Sheridan Le Fanu and 6 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley and David Shaw-Parker

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.

When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.

Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your reading and listening pleasure.

01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - An Introduction - Volume 1

02 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

03 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman

04 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu

09 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik

06 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

07 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

08 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

09 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens

10 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker

11 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835477144

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.