Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• Cecilia de Noël • (1891) • novella by Lanoe Falconer
• Haunted! • (1898) • poem by Isabella Banks
• Introduction (The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories) • (1988) • essay by Jennifer Uglow
• Let Loose • (1890) • short story by Mary Cholmondeley
• Many Waters Cannot Quench Love • (1895) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [as by Louisa Baldwin]
• Napoleon and the Spectre • (1919) • short story by Charlotte Brontë
• Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time • (1865) • short story by Rosa Mulholland
• Notes on the Authors (The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories) • (1988) • essay by Richard Dalby
• Preface (The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories) • (1988) • essay by Richard Dalby
• Reality or Delusion? • [Johnny Ludlow] • (1868) • short story by Mrs. Henry Wood
• Round the Fire (excerpt) • (1988) • short story by Catherine Crowe (variant of The Benighted Traveller 1859)
• The Affair at Grover Station • (1900) • short story by Willa Cather
• The Cold Embrace • (1860) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Last House in C— Street • (1856) • short story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [as by Dinah Maria Mulock]
• The Old House in Vauxhall Walk • (1882) • novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
• The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• The Open Door • (1882) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• The Prayer • (1895) • novelette by Violet Hunt
• The Story of Salome • (1867) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• The Striding Place • (1896) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton
• The Vacant Lot • (1902) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Villa Lucienne • (1896) • short story by Ella D'Arcy
• Winthrop's Adventure • (1881) • novelette by Vernon Lee