The Phantom Coach : : a Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories

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The old nurse's story / by Elizabeth Gaskell -- The phantom coach / by Amelia B. Edwards -- The trial for murder / by Charles Dickens -- The captain of the "Pole-Star" / by Arthur Conan Doyle -- Sir Edmund Orme / by Henry James -- The yellow sign / by Robert W. Chambers -- The library window / by Margaret Oliphant -- The monkey's paw / by W. W. Jacobs -- The Southwest chamber / by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- They / by Rudyard Kipling -- The moonlit road / by Ambrose Bierce -- August heat / by W. F. Harvey.
"From the editor of The Dead Witness and Dracula's Guest, Michael Sims, expert on all things Victorian, presents a collection of stories about humanity's oldest supernatural obsession: ghosts. The Phantom Coach, gathers memorable ghost tales from the Victorian era by a surprising, often-legendary cast, from Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton to Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Arthur Conan Doyle. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills"-- Provided by publisher.

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A good Halloween read submitted by emilyb308 on August 18, 2020, 2:08pm This is a pretty solid collection of stories—very fun to read around Halloween. My personal favorite was The Southwest Chamber by Mary Wilkins Freeman (what an atmosphere!), but the stories by Gaskell, Edwards, Dickens, Conan Doyle, and Chambers were good as well. I’d suggest skipping the Margaret Oliphant, though. She wrote as if she was paid by the word, and still didn’t manage to say much with them.