Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, M.R. James and many more

Classic ghost stories to send a chill down your spine! There are few pleasures more enduring than a ghost story read as the light fails. In this carefully gathered anthology, the great nineteenth and early twentieth-century masters turn parlours, railway cuttings, lonely rooms and old houses sinister. A signalman hears a warning that may come too late. A scholar finds that curiosity can carry a terrible price. Travellers, servants, widows and solitary witnesses discover that a haunting rarely announces itself plainly. These classic ghost stories remain chilling because they trust silence, suggestion and the half-seen thing. Perfect for readers seeking Victorian ghost stories, Edwardian supernatural fiction and elegant literary horror, this collection shows why the form still has such power after the candle has burned low.