· The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) The Victorians loved a good ghost story and the journals of the time would publish special Christmas supplements packed with hauntings, demonic possessions, deathbed apparitions and /5. · The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) The Victorians loved a good ghost story and the journals of the time would publish special Christmas supplements packed with hauntings, demonic possessions, deathbed apparitions and /5. Find books like The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) from the world’s largest community of readers. Goodr.
$ Ghost stories at Christmas can be traced back to pagan times - Yule and Saturnalia - when the Winter Solstice (like Hallowe'en and Wulpurgis Night) was viewed as a moment in space and time where the thinness of the boundaries between the supernatural and human worlds became remarkably plastic, and all manner of strange things were said to be seen and heard in the winter air. THE AUTHOR: Charlotte Riddell ( - ), published under her married name as Mrs. J. H. Riddell, was one of the most prolific writers of short stories and novels in the mid to late Victorian era. She was the first women to write about the City and business life as Arthur Waugh recalls in One Mans' www.doorway.ru reminds us that nearly all of her income from her various publishers was lost by her. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J.S. Le Fanu, M.R. James, and Algernon Blackwood, this selection also emphasizes the key role played by women writers - Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs Craik, Rhoda Broughton, Mrs Henry Wood, M.E. Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Charlotte Riddell, B.M. Croker, and E. Nesbit, among many others.
Find books like The Open Door and Other Haunted Tales (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell) from the world’s largest community of readers. Goodr. The Open Door (Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell): 14 spooky Victorian tales from a mistress of the genre Kindle Edition. by Charlotte Riddell (Author), Mrs J.H. Riddell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. out of 5 stars. Riddell was also prominent as a writer of ghost stories. Five of her novels—Fairy Water, The Uninhabited House, The Haunted River, The Disappearance of Mr. Jeremiah Redworth and The Nun's Curse—deal with buildings blighted by supernatural phenomena. Riddell also wrote several shorter ghost stories, such as "The Open Door" and "Nut Bush Farm".
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