Ralph Adams Cram 1 hr 53 min read

Seven refined tales of the supernatural, a haunted Paris flat, an Austrian keep, a dead valley, from a master architect turned ghost-story writer.

Ralph Adams Cram's 1895 collection brings an aesthete's eye and an architect's love of place to classic English-style ghost stories, several of them (notably 'The Dead Valley') genuine minor masterpieces of quiet dread. A distinguished period volume of the weird. Read it for elegant, atmospheric Victorian ghost stories from an unexpectedly gifted hand.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 53 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).