![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. Despite her pride, independence, and honesty, Charity Royall feels shadowed by her past-especially in her ardent relationship with the educated and refined Lucius Harney. 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. A naive girl from a humble background meets an ambitious city boy, and a torrid romance ensues. The author was born to wealthy New York socialites on January 24, 1862, and raised in luxurious style in. The work was unusual for Wharton, who usually set her novels in New York City and populated them with members of the privileged upper class. ![]() 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. Summer, written by Edith Wharton, is a novel set in rural New England and was published in 1917. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. ![]()
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