James Skipp Borlase

The shrieking skull and other victorian christmas ghost stories - James Skipp Borlase

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• Thirteen rare tales by the most prolific Victorian Christmas ghost story author
• Collected and republished for the first time
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• Charles Dickens
• The author of A Christmas Carol may be the most famous Victorian author of Christmas ghost stories
• But the king of the genre was James Skipp Borlase (1839-1909)
• Who published dozens of them in obscure British and Australian periodicals during a nearly fifty-year span
• Now for the first time
• Thirteen of Borlase's best tales have been unearthed from newspaper archives and compiled in a single volume for modern readers
• In A Weird Wooing (1898) an impecunious suitor braves a house haunted by the ghosts of plague victims in search of a legendary treasure

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