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    Curious, if True Strange Tales
    Curious, if True Strange Tales
    Curious, if True Strange Tales
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    Curious, if True Strange Tales

    By Elizabeth Gaskell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 1995
    Curious, if True Strange Tales
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    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.

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      Not enjoying these stories -- the moralizing irritates me and the paranormal (ghosts and demons) bores rather than frightens. I read the first 2 stories and the first chapter of the third; the last two stories I have read previously in "The Gray Woman and Other Tales". Those two would be the best in this collection...
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      Pedestrian ghost stories that don’t raise a single goosebump. Sins of the fathers is a common theme as curses and misfortunes redound through the generations. The title story is the shortest, lightest, and best, about a chap by the name of Richard Whittingham who stumbles upon an antique chateau in which a medley of fairy tale characters are having a reunion. The longest and dullest is “Lois the Witch”, a Salem story which isn’t supernatural in the slightest. The others are OK ideas but go on too long.

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