Wimbourne Books

20/12/2024

A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS

Just in time for Christmas, The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 19 is now available in paperback.

This volume contains twenty Christmas-themed ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.

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09/11/2024

Just published on Kindle: The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 25.

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Includes the anonymous stories; The Unknown Singer: A Mystification (1844); Ghost or No Ghost? (1852); The Story of a Phantom (1858); A Photographer’s Story (1861); The Ghost’s Hand: A Christmas Story (1864); The Ghost of the Abbey (1867); The Phantom of Regatta Island (1869); Grey Woman of the Moor (1885); The Lady of the Lea (1888); The Tower Ghost (1888); The Ninth Window (1888); The Mystery of Catherine Clairville (1889); A Phantom Face (1889); A Ghostly Manifestation (1889); The Empty Compartment (1890); The Recess in the Wall (1890); The Restless Dead (1892); The Ghosts of Cottenal Court (1895); The Third Traveller (1896); The Ghost of Sir Willopy Wite (1897).

Also now available, the paperback versions of Volumes 17 and 18.

Amazon US Volume 17 Paperback https://bit.ly/3UJ24yw
Amazon US Volume 18 Paperback https://bit.ly/48G2dZi
Amazon UK Volume 17 Paperback https://amzn.to/48KjUqA
Amazon UK Volume 18 Paperback https://bit.ly/3AxaYI

05/01/2024

JUST PUBLISHED!

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 24

Twenty Ghost Stories from the Masters of the Victorian Age.

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Includes the stories;

The Ghost-Story of the Lady Who Kept A Secret (1861) – Frederick William Robinson; Poor Chips (1861) – Charles Henry Webb; My Old Nurse’s Story (1864) – George MacDonald; The Ghost of the State Cabin (1870) – Charles Rathbone Low; Eily’s Ghost (1872) – James Bowker; A Debt of Honour: A Ghost Story (1877) – Charles Lawrence Young; The Haunted Rock: A Legend of Porth Guerron Cove (1881) – William Wilthew Fenn; Nut Bush Farm< (1882) – Charlotte Riddell; A Ghost Story Without an End (1887) – Leslie Ethridge; The House on the Corner (1888) – George Downing Sparks; The Ghost at the Proscenium (1889) – Gilbert Edward Campbell; The Superstitious Man’s Story (1891) – Thomas Hardy; The Ghosts in My Tower (1894) – Frank Richard Stockton; The Roll-call of the Reef (1895) – Arthur Quiller-Couch; The House of the Bronze Fox (1896) – Clinton Ross; The Friends of the Friends (1896) – Henry James; The Story of Baelbrow (1898) – E. & H. Heron; The Co**se Light (1899) - J. E. P. Muddock; The Fifth Mile Post: An Indian Ghost Story (1899) – C. E. Jeffery; The Spirit of the Fjord (1901) – John Clark Shannon.

10/06/2023

Just published by Wimbourne Books...

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 23

Twenty Ghost Stories from the Masters of the Victorian Age.

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Includes the stories;

The Necromancer; or Ghost versus Gramarye (1842) — Isabella Frances Romer; The Haunted House (1852) — Mary Ann Bird; The Man-in-the-Moon’s Ghost Story (1861) — Rosa Almeida Chawner; Grandmother’s Story (1866) — Julia Bachope Goddard; The Ghost of Russian Hill (1868) — Margaret Kerr Hosmer; How Georgette Kept Tryst (1879) — Mary E. Penn; A Culture-Ghost; or, Winthrop’s Adventure (1881) — Vernon Lee; A Stray Reveler: The Picture Which Was a Prophesy (1882) — Emma Frances Dawson; “That Awful Face!” (1882) — Florence Marryat; The Ghost of Manibere Court (1884) — Louisa Grice Hutchinson; Miss Tweed’s Ghost Story: A Tale for the People (1889) — Sarah Doudney; John Charrington’s Wedding (1891) — Edith Nesbit; Caulfield’s Crime (1892) — Alice Perrin; The Missing Model (1893) — Lettice Galbraith; The Stout Wooer and the Haunted Room (1894) — A. M. Stein; The Prayer (1895) — Violet Hunt; Whither Thou Goest (1896) — Katharine Lee Bates; The Villa Lucienne (1896) — Ella D’Arcy; My Fellow Travellers (1896) — Mary Angela Dickens; There and Here: A Story (1897) — Alice Brown.

28/02/2023

Just published by Wimbourne Books...

THE BLUE ROOM AND OTHER TALES: The Ghost Stories of Lettice Galbraith.

Includes all of Lettice Galbraith’s ghost stories in one volume, and the previously unpublished tale The Ghost of Vittoria Pandelli.

With a full biography/bibliography by Alastair Gunn.
Foreword by Melissa Edmundson.

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The Blue Room and Other Tales: The Ghost Stories of Lettice Galbraith

08/08/2022

Also just published: The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The paperback versions of Volumes 11 and 12 are now available on Amazon.

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https://amzn.to/3p12cJt (Amazon UK Volume 11)
https://amzn.to/3vPREkh (Amazon US Volume 12)
https://amzn.to/3P1JrjK (Amazon UK Volume 12)

08/08/2022

Just published: The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 22

Twenty Ghost Stories from the Masters of the Victorian Age.

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Includes the stories;

The Monomaniac (1845) - Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet; Ghost Stories (1848) - George Washington Peck; George Whitmore's Great-Uncle (1850) - Mary Ann Bird; The Monktons of Wincot Abbey (1855) - Wilkie Collins; The Sheep Farmer’s Story (1859) - Catherine Ann Crowe; Four Stories (1861) - Edward Bulwer-Lytton; D'Outre Mort (1866) - Harriet Prescott Spofford; Not A Doubt of It (1869) - William Morley Farrow; Since I Died (1873) - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward; The Spectre of the Hemlock Gorge (1874) - Charles W. Jay; Under the Sheer-Legs (1875) - Henry Tinson; An Antiquary's Ghost Story (1880) - Augustus Jessopp; A Curious Experience (1883) - Ellen Wood; The Phantom 'Rickshaw (1885) - Rudyard Kipling; A Dead Man's Vengeance (1888) - William John Butterworth Bird; The Last of the Ghosts (1888) - Barrett Wendell; The Old House on the Cliff (1889) - William Wilthew Fenn; Geordie Blair's Luck (1897) - Birch Vye and Sydney Phelps; The Piano Next Door (1898) - Elia Wilkinson Peattie; Number 13 (1899) - M. R. James.

12/07/2022

After a bit of a break to work on other projects, The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories will return within a few weeks with Volume 22 in the series. This edition contains the following stories...

The Monomaniac (1845) - Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet; Ghost Stories (1848) - George Washington Peck; George Whitmore's Great-Uncle (1850) - Mary Ann Bird; The Monktons of Wincot Abbey (1855) - Wilkie Collins; The Sheep Farmer’s Story (1859) - Catherine Ann Crowe; Four Stories (1861) - Edward Bulwer-Lytton; D'Outre Mort (1866) - Harriet Prescott Spofford; Not A Doubt of It (1869) - William Morley Farrow; Since I Died (1873) - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward; The Spectre of the Hemlock Gorge (1874) - Charles W. Jay; Under the Sheer-Legs (1875) - Henry Tinson; An Antiquary's Ghost Story (1880) - Augustus Jessopp; A Curious Experience (1883) - Ellen Wood; The Phantom 'Rickshaw (1885) - Rudyard Kipling; A Dead Man's Vengeance (1888) - William John Butterworth Bird; The Last of the Ghosts (1888) - Barrett Wendell; The Old House on the Cliff (1889) - William Wilthew Fenn; Geordie Blair's Luck (1897) - Birch Vye and Sydney Phelps; The Piano Next Door (1898) - Elia Wilkinson Peattie; Number 13 (1899) - M. R. James.