Collected here are some of the most iconic Victorian ghost stories, from Charles Dickens’s ‘The Signalman’ to M. R. James’s ‘A Warning to the Curious’, alongside more unexpected contributions from masters of the form such as J. S. Le Fanu and H. G. Wells.
The great writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Rudyard Kipling, also produced some of the most influential ghost stories ever written, shaping the conventions of the genre for generations of writers to follow.