The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
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The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories is an anthology edited by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert, published by Oxford University Press, collecting supernatural tales from the great age of the English ghost story. It gathers some forty stories written between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth, by masters of the form such as Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Wharton, alongside lesser-known writers of the period.
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- Margaret Atwood: “Why were the Victorians such prolific ghost-story writers? … M.R. James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, J. Sheridan LeFanu, and so many more, have left a rich legacy of ghost literature.”