![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. This is the dystopian novel that Pope Francis has twice urged Catholics to read (in 2013 and again in 2015), calling it 'prophetic. 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. Protestantism is over, Catholicism is driven underground. 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. Belief in God has been replaced by secular humanism in this gripping tale of the apocalypse. ![]() Christopher Lee Actor The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. After being ordained in 1904, Benson went on to become a lauded author, penning religious books and works of science, historical, and children’s fiction. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Sir Ian Holm was one of the worlds greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning. Benson (18711914) was an English Anglican priest who later joined the Roman Catholic Church. ![]()
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