![]() ![]() With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. ![]() ![]() The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. His niece Rhoda Broughton would become a very successful novelist. Both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights. 45 Lower Dominick Steet, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot origins. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. About Le Fanu: Sheridan Le Fanu was born at No. ![]()
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