Book description
Edited and with a Biography by Alastair Gunn Foreword by Melissa Edmundson
Lettice Galbraith’s collection of supernatural tales, New Ghost Stories, first appeared in 1893 and became one of the most popular (and most reprinted) ghostly collections of the final decade of the 19th century.
This volume from Wimbourne Books…
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1 author picked The Blue Room and Other Tales as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Lettice Gailbraith was one of the finest writers of ghostly short stories of the Victorian era.
Frustratingly, I had previously only been able to find a few stories by this underappreciated writer in scattered anthologies, so to finally have all of her supernatural fiction in one volume is a real treat. Despite being written in the late 1800s, I found all of the stories refreshingly modern in style and totally gripping.
For me, a very important bonus of this collection is the revelation of the true identity and life story of the writer who hid behind the pen name of…
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