Holy Ghosts by Fiona Snailham

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Holy Ghosts by Fiona Snailham

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Through eleven stories published between 1851 and 1935, this new anthology revives a throng of undying spirits from a host of unsung and classic authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, John Wyndham, and Edith Wharton.

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Holy Ghosts by Fiona Snailham

"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard." A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a cathedral's hallowed inner sanctum; sheltering in an Alpine chapel, a young libertine confronts his eerie monastic doppelganger; locked in a Spanish cathedral, a honeymooning couple bears witness to a fatal procession. Churches and other sacred sites have inspired writers of the weird and uncanny for centuries as spaces in which death and the afterlife are within touching distance - where ghosts, demons and possessed effigies remain to haunt the living. Through eleven stories published between 1851 and 1935, this new anthology revives a throng of undying spirits from a host of unsung and classic authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, John Wyndham, and Edith Wharton.
FIONA SNAILHAM is a Lecturer in Gothic Literature at the University of Greenwich. Her research interests include Victorian popular fiction, nineteenth-century women writers and the ghost story. Her current project explores the intersection between Christian theology and Victorian mediumship and spiritualism.
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ISBN 13 9780712354134
ISBN 10 0712354131
Title Holy Ghosts
Author Fiona Snailham
Series British Library Tales Of The Weird
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher British Library Publishing
Year published 2023-06-08
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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