This superb new anthology contains the cream from the golden age of the ghost story, spanning the Victorian era from 1839 right up to the end of the Edwardian decade in 1910. From the early years of Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Dickens, the Victorians and later the Edwardians had a passion for weird, scary and richly embroidered tales of the bizarre and supernatural. No Christmas number of a popular magazine was complete without a new ghost story by a leading writer.