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. Sister Fidelma originally made her debut as one of the decades most interesting sleuths in short story form. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. HEMLOCK AT VESPERS is Peter Tremaynes anthology of Celtic mysteries featuring the ever-popular 7th-century super-sleuth Sister Fidelma.
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. Hemlock at Vespers Peter Tremayne Sister Fidelma-an Eognacht princess and sister to the king of Cashel, a religieuse of the Celtic Church and an advocate of the Brehornn court-is one of the most interesting and compelling figures in contemporary mystery fiction.
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. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty.
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