Collected Ghost Stories

Edited and introduced by J.N. Smith

The cover reproduces the original four colour design of the original U.K. edition of Uncanny Tales . This edition also includes the original illustration accompanying ‘Old Gervais’ from Sunday Magazine,(1892).

Side Real Press is pleased to present for the first time in a single volume the complete collected ghost stories of noted Victorian Authoress Mrs. Molesworth.

Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921) produced over one hundred books in her lifetime. Known primarily as a writer for children and young adults, she, like her contemporaries Rhoda Broughton and Mary Braddon, also tried her hand at the supernatural genre, ultimately producing ten tales. The majority of these were collected into two, now rare, volumes, Four Ghost Stories (1888) and Uncanny Tales (1896).

Collected Ghost Stories gathers these, and other ghost stories scattered from her more general collections together with ‘A Ghost Of The Pampas’, the only known ghost story by her son Bevil (1870-1898).

Avoiding the normally ornate style of the typical Victorian ghost story, she produced tales with “a refreshing sharpness and lucidity......invested with wit, charm, intelligence and subtle chills” (Penguin Encyclopedia Of Horror And The Supernatural).

Contents:

• Introduction
• Lady Farquhars Old Lady
• Witnessed By Two
• Unexplained
• The Rippling Train
• The Shadow In The Moonlight’
• The Man With The Cough
• At The Dip In The Road
• Not Exactly A Ghost Story
• Old Gervais
• A Strange Messenger
• A Ghost Of The Pampas*. * By Bevil Molesworth

Limited to 300 numbered copies in hardback and sold out at the publisher