Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading

 

 

 

 

 

This bibliography includes sources cited in, or useful in the writing of, this book’s introductory essay or its individual story introductions. It also includes selected biographies, general introductions to the topics of ghost stories up to the Edwardian era, and essays and articles of particular relevance. It excludes works by those authors whose stories appear in this anthology and thus receive attention in the biographical note that introduces their contribution. For further information about many of the authors whose stories are included in this volume, see the other volumes of my Connoisseur’s Collection series for Bloomsbury, cited below under Sims.

 

Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story. London: Faber, 1977. A superb and lively survey of the genre that was helpful throughout the creation of this anthology.

Conan Doyle, Arthur, edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. New York: Penguin, 2007. Actually only the letters to and from his mother, but still a useful outline of his life, full of excellent detail.

———. Memories and Adventures. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Crucial background and very well written.

———. “Some Personalia about Sherlock Holmes.” The Strand, December 1917.

Cox, Michael, and R. A. Gilbert. Introduction to their volume The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Davidson, Cathy N. The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Edel, Leon, ed. Henry James: Stories of the Supernatural. New York: Taplinger, 1970. See Edel’s overall introduction to the volume, as well as his introductions to each story.

Ensor, Sir Robert. England, 1870–1914. London: Oxford University Press, 1936.

Griffin, Martin. “The Moonlit Road.” The Ambrose Bierce Project Journal, Fall 2006.

Hearne, Michael Patrick, ed. The Annotated “Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

Jarrell, Randall. Kipling, Auden, & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935–1964. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. See especially Jarrell’s essays “On Preparing to Read Kipling,” “In the Vernacular,” and “The English in England.”

Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: A Biography. New York: William Morrow, 1988.

Kelly, Richard. Introduction to his annotated edition of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press, 2003.

Lycett, Andrew. The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Free Press, 2007.

Maugham, Somerset, ed. Maugham’s Choice of Kipling’s Best. New York: Doubleday, 1953. See Maugham’s introduction.

Morris, Roy Jr. Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981–1991. New York: Penguin, 1992.

Sims, Michael. Introduction to The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Detective Stories. New York: Walker & Co., 2011. See also individual story introductions. Some of the same authors appear in The Phantom Coach.

———. Introduction to Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories. New York: Walker & Co., 2010. See also individual story introductions. Some of the same authors appear in The Phantom Coach and The Dead Witness.

Thurston, Luke. Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: The Haunting Interval. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Woolf, Virginia. “Henry James’s Ghost Stories,” in Collected Essays, vol. 1. London: Hogarth Press, 1966.