Name: Victorian Nightmares

This unique collection gathers together 21 of these Victorian-era spine-tinglers, but unlike most anthologies, which feature the same tired tales, this volume contains 21 outstanding, but neglected stories from that time period. The product of painstaking research in libraries, antique bookshops, and other out-of-the-way archives, these rare gems include A Bottomless Grave, a black comedy by Ambrose Bierce; The Ship That Saw a Ghost, a tale of seafaring mystery by Frank Norris; The Tomb, Guy de Maupassant's grotesque account of one man's incurable longing for his deceased lover; Richard Marsh's unsettling tale of The Haunted Chair, and 17 more.

Compelling tales by such lesser-known writers as Dorothea Gerard, J. Keighley Snowden, Robert Barr, and Georgina C. Clark round out this collection of carefully chosen, hard-to-find narratives, sure to delight the most discerning reader of Victorian tales of terror and the supernatural.

Contents:

• Introduction by Hugh Lamb
• The Devil of the Marsh by H.B. Marriott-Watson
• A Tragic Honeymoon by G.R. Sims
• The Battle of the Monsters by Morgan Robertson
• The Return by R. Murray Gilchrist
• The Corpse Light by Dick Donovan
• The Ship That Saw a Ghost by Frank Norris
• A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
• One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce
• Ghosts That Have Haunted Me by J.K. Bangs
• Haunted by Spirits by George Manville Fenn
• A Ghost Slayer by J. Keighley Snowden
• The Tomb by Guy de Maupassant
• The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton
• My Nightmare by Dorothea Gerard
• A Life-Watch by Georgina C. Clark
• The Haunted Chair by Richard Marsh
• Coolies by W. Carlton Dawe
• The Three Souls by Erckmann-Chatrian
• A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby
• An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr
• The Story of Baelbrow by E. and H. Heron