Late Victorian Gothic Tales

'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities into his head...' 

Writings by Roger Luckhurst, Vernon Lee, Arthur Machen, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, M. P. Shiel, B. M. Croker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, Jean Lorrain.

Edited and selected by Roger Luckhurst.