Holy Ghosts
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churches
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rare fiction
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spirits
supernatural
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Product details
- ISBN 9780712354134
- Dimensions: 130 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2023
- Publisher: British Library Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard."
A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a cathedral's hallowed inner sanctum; sheltering in an Alpine chapel, a young libertine confronts his eerie monastic doppelganger; locked in a Spanish cathedral, a honeymooning couple bears witness to a fatal procession.
Churches and other sacred sites have inspired writers of the weird and uncanny for centuries as spaces in which death and the afterlife are within touching distance - where ghosts, demons and possessed effigies remain to haunt the living. Through eleven stories published between 1851 and 1935, this new anthology revives a throng of undying spirits from a host of unsung and classic authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, John Wyndham, and Edith Wharton.
FIONA SNAILHAM is a Lecturer in Gothic Literature at the University of Greenwich. Her research interests include Victorian popular fiction, nineteenth-century women writers and the ghost story. Her current project explores the intersection between Christian theology and Victorian mediumship and spiritualism.
