Victorian Ghosts

‘The Signalman’ (1866) is a short story by the English writer Charles Dickens...

John makes up his mind to marry May Forster, the prettiest young woman in the village. Af...

Daniel, a young man and son of the late bailiff, with rather superior ways of a gentleman...

A British gentleman is traveling from London to Brindisi, in India. On the train, he meet...

In the story, a young, scientifically-minded college professor finds an old bronze whistl...

In Gertrude Atherton’s The Striding Place, the concept of identity and a lonely dea...

The American Otis family moves into the old English country house Canterville Chase. They...

The narrator - the old nurse of the title - is an old family retainer who has worked in t...

How do you know if you’ve seen a ghost? Maybe you’ll never know. But an Ameri...

Being awoken by noises in the night is disturbing enough, but the chilling voice heard on...

The charming but nonetheless creepy tale of Nina, a little girl’s doll, who repays ...

A determined and strong-minded young lady plagues Sigismund Braggett for his professional...

Extracts from a diary report first-hand the uncovering of a tomb and the nightly wanderin...

Young Earnest befriends another little boy on his family’s weekly trips to church. ...

In this well-known classic, a school inspector travelling to the village of Pit End wonde...

A young man’s inheritance includes more than a house when an ebony-framed painting ...

While a door that just won’t stay closed may not seem like the most terrifying of h...