Stories From the Shadows - Ghosts: Embrace the darkness

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.
But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?

Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you.

1 - Stories From the Shadows - Ghosts - An Introduction

2 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

3 - My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling

4 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde

5 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

6 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton

7 - Only A Dream by H Rider Haggard

8 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe

9 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott

10 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

11 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

12 - The Closed Window by A C Benson

13 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton

14 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

15 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

16 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

17 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik

18 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

19 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

20 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn

21 - To Let by B M Croker

22 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne

23 - The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland

24 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster

25 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker

26 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 1 by Richard Harris Barham

27 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 2 by Richard Harris Barham

28 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt

29 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit

30 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves

31 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood

32 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

33 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould

34 - The Story of the Rippling Train by Mary Louisa Molesworth

35 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard

36 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

37 - A Smiling Ghost by W G Kelly

38 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav

39 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

40 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

41 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

42 - A Collector's Company by R H Malden