Florence Marryat

Adeline Sergeant

It's the most wonderful time of the year - time for more rare ghostly tales of Yuletide terror from Victorian England! For this fifth Valancourt volume of Christmas ghost stories, editor Christopher Philippo has dug deeper than ever before, delving into the archives of Victorian-era newspapers and magazines from throughout the British Isles to find twenty-one rare texts for the Christmas season - seventeen stories and four poems - most of them never before reprinted. Featured here are gems by once-popular but now-forgotten 19th-century masters of the supernatural like Amelia Edwards, Barry Pain, and Florence Marryat, alongside contributions by totally obscure authors like James Skipp Borlase, a writer of penny dreadfuls who specialized in lurid Christmas horror stories, and Harry Grattan, who made history by writing the first ghost story recorded by Edison for the phonograph. Also included are an introduction and bonus materials, such as 19th-century news articles and advertisements related to Christmas ghosts. "I endeavoured to call out; I could not utter a sound. As I gasped and panted, there stole into my nostrils a deadly, terrible, overpowering stench . . . It was the dread odour of decomposing mortality . . . I felt that I must break the spell, or die." - John Pitman, "Ejected by a Ghost" "It was a coach made of dead men's bones . . . Behind the awful vehicle stood two fleshless skeletons in place of footmen, the driver was a horned and tailed fiend, and the six coal--black steeds that he drove had eyes of fire, and snorted flame from their nostrils as they tore madly along." - James Skipp Borlase, "The Wicked Lady Howard"

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Five

Reproduction of the original: A True Friend by Adeline Sergeant

A True Friend

Kathleen L. Bruce

Charles Joyce (Bookseller)

A Novel

The Idol-maker

A Fragment

The Surrender of Margaret Bellarmine

August Nemo

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Adeline Sergeant wich are Under False Pretences and A True Friend. Adeline Sergeant was an English author of the Victorian era with a close connection to Christianity. Novels selected for this book: - Under False Pretences - A True Friend.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Middle-class Provincial Home

Essential Novelists - Adeline Sergeant

The Mistress of Quest

The Great Mill Street Mystery

My Lady's Diamonds

Brooke's Daughter

Caspar Brooke's Daughter

Reparation

"A Life Sentence" from Adeline Sergeant. English writer (1851-1904).

A Life Sentence

"A Life Sentence" by Adeline Sergeant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Story of a Penitent Soul, Being the Private Papers of Mr. Stephen Dart, Late Minister at Lynnbridge in the County of Lincoln

Esther Denison

"Brooke's Daughter" by Adeline Sergeant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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