Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories
A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; the last transmission of a dying man haunts the airwaves, seeking to reveal his murderer; a treasure hunt disturbs an ancient presence in the silence of a lost tomb.

From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early20th century. Waiting within are malevolent spirits eager to possess the living and mysterious spectral guardians—a diverse host of phantoms exhumed from the rare pages of literary magazines and newspaper serials to thrill once more.
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Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories
A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; the last transmission of a dying man haunts the airwaves, seeking to reveal his murderer; a treasure hunt disturbs an ancient presence in the silence of a lost tomb.

From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early20th century. Waiting within are malevolent spirits eager to possess the living and mysterious spectral guardians—a diverse host of phantoms exhumed from the rare pages of literary magazines and newspaper serials to thrill once more.
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Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories

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Overview

A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; the last transmission of a dying man haunts the airwaves, seeking to reveal his murderer; a treasure hunt disturbs an ancient presence in the silence of a lost tomb.

From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early20th century. Waiting within are malevolent spirits eager to possess the living and mysterious spectral guardians—a diverse host of phantoms exhumed from the rare pages of literary magazines and newspaper serials to thrill once more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780712352666
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Publication date: 04/01/2019
Series: Tales of the Weird
Edition description: None
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 1,086,160
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 100 books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World, and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950.

Table of Contents

On the Embankment - Hugh E. Wright
The Mystery of the Gables - Elsie Norris
The Missing Word - Austin Philips
Phantom Death - Huan Mee
The Wraith of the Rapier - Firth Scott
The Soul of Maddalina Tonelli - James Barr
Haunted! - Jack Edwards
Our Strange Traveller - Percy James Brebner
A Regent of Love Rhymes - Guy Thorne
Amid the Trees - Francis Xavier
The River's Edge - Mary Schultze
A Futile Ghost - Mary Reynolds
Ghosts - Lumley Deakin
Kearney - Elizabeth Jordan
When Spirits Steal - Philippa Forest
The House of the Black Evil - Eric Purves
The Woman in the Veil - E. F. Benson
The Treasure of the Tombs - F. Britten Austin
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