Richard Dalby Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Sbírka duchařský povídek anglických autorek z viktoriánské doby. Antologii sestavil Richard Dalby. Tematicky navazuje na započatou řadu, kterou tvoří Skotské duchařské historky, Irské duchařské historky a Anglické duchařské historky. Richard Dalby nám předkládá další lahůdku v podobě povídek ze „zlaté éry" duchařských příběhů, jež byly většinou publikované v soudobých časopisech. Setkáme se zde s mnoha druhy duchů, jak se zlomyslnými a hrůzostrašnými, tak i se sympatickými a dobrotivými.

Close the curtains against the howling wind, pull your chair closer to the fire, lock the door, and above all, do not let any strangers into your home! This collection of chilling Christmas stories reveals that in December, it is not only cold outside, but the chill can creep into the heart as well. Exciting tales from Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Tremayne, John Collier, and many others await.

The Victorians, and later the Edwardians, had a passion for the weird, scary and richly embroidered tales of the bizarre and supernatural. In this deliciously chilling volume are many of literature's greatest names, spanning the Victorian era from 1839 right up the end of the Edwardian decade in 1910.

Seventeen stories about witches - a collection that raises questions for which there are no ready answers. Do hidden powers really exist, or is everything merely a product of human imagination?

Comprising: Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Brontë The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Last House in C--- Street by Dinah M. Mulock Round the Fire by Catherine Crowe The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Not To Be Taken at Bed-Time by Rosa Mulholland The Story of Salome by Amelia B. Edwards The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton Reality or Delusion? by Mrs Henry Wood Winthrop's Adventure by Vernon Lee The Old House in Vauxhall Walk by Charlotte Riddell The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant Ceciia De Noël by Lanoe Falconer Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin The Prayer by Violet Hunt The Villa Lucienne by Ella D'Arcy The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton The Affair at Grover Station by Willa Cather The Vacant Lot by Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman) Haunted! by Isabella Banks

Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.