10 Creepy Facts About Victorian London
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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (Annotated): Volume 1
- ASIN: B01MDQSMLK
- Manufacturer: Wimbourne Books
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors; English, Iris... [Read More]
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The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
- ASIN: 0192804472
- ISBN: 0192804472
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay be... [Read More]
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The Mesmerist: Hope Chest Time Travel Romance Series, Book 1 (Hope Chest Series)
- ASIN: B00MYRE9ZY
- Manufacturer: Parker Hayden Media
A woman fleeing her unfaithful fiancé. A cuddly ghost seeking the manner of his death. A magical matchmaker determined to bring the two together, even across time.When dog trainer Gina Charles flees her unfaithful fiancé, she ends up at a hotel room with another occupant—a ghost with compelling dark eyes who cuddles up to her in the middle of t... [Read More]
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The Last Necromancer (The Ministry Of Curiosities Book 1)
- ASIN: B00ZMVECQA
A waif, her abductor and a twist you won't see coming.For five years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit since she first discovered she could do so five years ago. That time, her father banished her... [Read More]
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
- ASIN: 1594482691
- ISBN: 1594482691
- Brand: Johnson, Steven
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal, clean water, sewers-necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become th... [Read More]
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The Signalman and Other Horrors: The Best Victorian Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (Oldstyle Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, & Hauntings) (Volume 2)
- ASIN: 1515105210
- ISBN: 1515105210
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Filled with fresh illustrations and illuminating commentary on each story, this collection of Dickens' best ghost stories is a unique and fascinating study of Britain's first great supernatural master. The defining writer of the Victorian Age, Charles Dickens rattled Western society with his dauntless progressivism and his acidic social realism. Hi... [Read More]
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The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- ASIN: B00LPMGXYE
- Manufacturer: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
A spine-tingling new collection of the best Victorian ghost stories-as suspenseful and entertaining as anything written today. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula's Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detec... [Read More]
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The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel
- ASIN: B07BKRGQTY
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by th... [Read More]
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Great Expectations
- ASIN: B00RWJPSHW
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (Annotated): Volume 5
- ASIN: B0752RWLRD
- Manufacturer: Wimbourne Books
Contains detailed biographies of all authorsContains stories not previously anthologizedIncludes a scholarly introduction by author Alastair GunnTwenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the fifth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by ... [Read More]
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
- ASIN: 1594746036
- ISBN: 9781594746031
- Brand: Quirk Books
- Manufacturer: Quirk Books
Read the #1 New York Times best-selling series before it continues in A Map of Days. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pec... [Read More]
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A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions)
- UPC: 800759268658
- ASIN: 0486268659
- ISBN: 0486268659
- Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
In October 1843, Charles Dickens ― heavily in debt and obligated to his publisher ― began work on a book to help supplement his family's meager income. That volume, A Christmas Carol, has long since become one of the most beloved stories in the English language. As much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths, th... [Read More]
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The Big Book of Ghost Stories
- ASIN: 0307474496
- ISBN: 0307474496
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler... [Read More]
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Nocturne for a Widow (Sybil Ingram Victorian Mysteries Book 1)
- ASIN: B00QB38G5G
“Delightful.” --InD'Tale magazineThe ghost may be the least of her problems... Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy is Brooke House, a Gothic revival manor i... [Read More]
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Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)
- ASIN: 184022066X
- ISBN: 184022066X
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser... [Read More]
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Five Victorian Ghost Novels
- UPC: 800759225583
- ASIN: 0486225585
- ISBN: 0486225585
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
In this volume are reprinted, complete and unabridged, five great classics of the Victorian supernatural novel: The Uninhabited House by Mrs. J. H. Riddell; The Amber Witch by J. W. Meinhold; Monsieur Maurice by Amelia B. Edwards; A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee; and The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale.These five novels present the entir... [Read More]
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Stephen
- ASIN: B076YBNQTQ
- Manufacturer: Dark Season Books
Fresh from the convent, Beryl Seaton accepts a position as governess for the Brooks family. When she arrives at the family's remote house, however, she discovers that a terrible secret is waiting for her in the nursery. Something so horrific, it chills Beryl to her core. Yet her desire to help is so strong, and so genuine, that Beryl nevertheless s... [Read More]
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The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: B01912QC5Y
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, ca... [Read More]
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Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
- ASIN: 1594749310
- ISBN: 1594749310
- Brand: QUIRK
- Manufacturer: Quirk Books
The New York Times #1 best-selling series. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samuel L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-befo... [Read More]
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Stalking Jack the Ripper
- ASIN: 031627349X
- ISBN: 031627349X
- Brand: Jimmy Patterson
- Manufacturer: jimmy patterson
A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Presented by James Patterson's new children's imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. B... [Read More]
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