Ghostly Tales silver sprocket the wit and dazzling morbidity

the wit and dazzling morbidity of her prose sheds new light on the saga for scholars

And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with a few books he would like to buy—two of them her favorites

For the first time ever

By Hannah Viano

Ghostly Tales silver sprocket the wit and dazzling morbidityA vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard, but sometimes at night, it screams. . . . This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind, or by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, each