Night Shivers by Jh Riddell

Night Shivers by Jh Riddell

'Moving, his candle was instantly extinguished, and in the very moment of being left in the darkness he saw, standing in the doorway, a woman, resembling her who had haunted his dream overnight. He rushed with outstretched hands to seize her, but clutched only air.’

Night Shivers presents a treasure trove of the stories of Mrs J. H. Riddell, one of the greatest Victorian writers of ghost stories. These tales, many of which have been out of print for years, take the reader on fearful journeys into the gloomy haunts of old neglected houses, into a world of prophetic dreams, out onto the wild terrain of Ireland to encounter a frightful banshee and even down into Hell itself. In these fourteen short stories and one novella, The Uninhabited House, there is the distillation of the best and most effective of Riddell’s spine-tingling supernatural fiction.

Contents:

Night Shivers

Nut Bush Farm

The Open Door

The Last of Squire Ennismore

A Strange Christmas Game

The Old House

Vauxhall Walk

Sandy the Tinker

Forewarned, Forearmed

Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning

Walnut-Tree House

Old Mrs Jones

Why Dr Cray Left Southam

Conn Kilrea

Diarmid Chittock’s Story

A Terrible Vengeance

The Uninhabited House

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906), who wrote as Mrs. J. H. Riddel, was one of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period. Her first novel, The Moors and the Fens, appeared in 1858. She issued it under the pseudonym of F. G. Trafford, which she abandoned for her own name in 1864. Between 1858 and 1902, she published thirty novels and tales. She was a prominent writer of ghost stories.