With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - Ebook written by William Hope Hodgson. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E.
Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. A história de Carnacki 'The Whistling Room' foi reimpressa em várias antologias, incluindo coleções apresentadas por Alfred. Hodgson também é conhecido por seus contos com personagens recorrentes: o 'detetive do ocultismo' Thomas Carnacki e o contrabandista Capitão Gault. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. William Hope Hodgson (Essex, 15 de novembro de 1877 Ypres.
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