![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. That first collection of stories established G.K. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. The Complete Father Brown Stories by G K Chesterton Buy Yes, Borrow Yes Pages: 800, Date: January 2013 Publisher: BBC Books ISBN: 978-1849906463 Share on. Father Brown, one of the most intelligent and attractive characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. 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. ![]() 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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