CLASSIC GHOST STORIES FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA

From the vast frozen regions of the Arctic Circle to the deserts of Australia, from the palaces of kings and the mansions of aristocrats to the humblest villages, the souls of the dead who refuse to accept the death of the body they inhabit return to seek revenge on the living, to drag loved ones to the grave with them- or simply to draw in some of the warmth of true existence.

Ghost stories from the Victorian era, a period when ancestral beliefs were at odds with rationality and science, and death exerted a strange, morbid attraction on mortals.

The short stories in this volume have been chosen as representative of the Victorian period, in order to evoke in the reader not only the necessary goosebumps, but also an interest in an era that is at once so close and so far away from our own. Most of them have never been translated into Greek until today.