Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth
- Authors
- Jen Baker & F. Marion Crawford & Mary E. Wilkins Freeman & Amelia B. Edwards & Charlotte Riddell & Ann M. Hoyt & Elizabeth Gaskell & H. D. Everett & Ellen Glasgow & Margery Lawrence
- Publisher
- British Library Publishing
- Tags
- traditional ghost stories , killer puppets , haunted houses , lost ghost stories , rural horror , british folklore , local legends
- Date
- 2021-05-18T20:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.52 MB
- Lang
- en
From living dolls to spirits wandering in search of solace or vengeance, the ghostly youth is one of the most enduring phenomena of supernatural fiction, its roots stretching back into the realms of folklore and superstition. In this spine-tingling new collection Jen Baker gathers a selection of the most chilling hauntings and encounters with ghostly children, expertly paired with notes and extracts from the folklore and legends which inspired them. Reviving obscure stories from Victorian periodicals alongside nail-biting episodes from master storytellers such as Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James and Margery Lawrence, this is a collection by turns enchanting, moving and thoroughly frightening.