<p>From fog-shrouded railway carriages to candlelit séance rooms, from haunted manor houses to snow-swept country roads, the gaslight era produced some of the finest ghost stories ever written—and many of the best have been hiding in the yellowed pages of forgotten magazines for over a century.</p>
<p>This collection gathers twenty tales of the supernatural from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, drawn from sources as varied as <i>Belgravia</i>, <i>Bentley’s Miscellany</i>, <i>Temple Bar</i>, <i>Household Words</i>, and <i>The Strand</i>. The contributors range from celebrated names—Le Fanu, H.G. Wells, W.W. Jacobs, Walter Scott, Amelia B. Edwards—to writers who vanished so thoroughly from literary history that almost nothing is known of them beyond the stories themselves.</p>
<p>Whether the ghost arrives as a cold shadow on a bedroom wall, a voice with no living source, or a shrouded figure gripping the foot of a bed, these are stories built on atmosphere, dread, and the unsettling conviction that the past is never entirely past.</p>
<p>This volume contains:</p>
<ul>
<li>"Introduction," by John Betancourt</li>
<li>"The Ghost’s Summons," by Ada Buisson</li>
<li>"The Dead Sexton," by J. Sheridan Le Fanu</li>
<li>"A Real Country Ghost Story," by Albert Smith</li>
<li>"The Open Door," by Mrs. Oliphant</li>
<li>"President d’Albi," by Anonymous</li>
<li>"The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost," by H.G. Wells</li>
<li>"Fiddle o’ Dreams," by Arthur Morrison</li>
<li>"Walnut-Tree House," by Mrs. J.H. Riddell</li>
<li>"The Spectre in the Train," by Helen</li>
<li>"The Tapestried Chamber," by Sir Walter Scott</li>
<li>"The Fourfold Dream," by James Payn</li>
<li>"The Phantom Coach," by Amelia B. Edwards</li>
<li>"The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth," by Rhoda Broughton</li>
<li>"The Ghost Detective," by Mark Lemon</li>
<li>"The Toll-House," by W.W. Jacobs</li>
<li>"A Weird Warning," by Ronald J. McNeill</li>
<li>"No Living Voice," by Thomas Street Millington</li>
<li>"The Shadow of a Shade," by Tom Hood</li>
<li>"In the Séance Room," by Lettice Galbraith</li>
</ul>
<p>If you enjoy this entry in the best-selling MEGAPACK® series, check out the 400+ other volumes, covering mystery, fantasy, science fiction, westerns, adventure, and much, much more. Accept no pale imitation!</p>
