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James, and although his work fell out of favour in the early part of the 20th century, towards the end of the century interest in his work increased and remains. The genre, then, takes its horror element from two separate sources. Best ghost story anthologies list of the best ghost short story anthologies with multiple authors. Pdf the oxford book of victorian ghost stories download. Wait until the dark of the snowy night preferably on christmas eve, lock the doors, shutter the windows, light. Oct 06, 2016 the small hand and the doll are both excellent ghost stories that stay with you long after you reach the final page. Dickens was considered the greatest english novelist of the victorian era. Ghost stories were hugely popular with the victorians. But the victorian era is one filled with great tradition of telling ghost stories. Dec 23, 20 ghost stories had traditionally been an oral form, but publishers suddenly needed a mass of content, and ghost stories fitted the bill short, cheap, generic, repetitive, able to be cut quite.
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