Florence Marryat 4 hr 6 min read

Publisher Sigismund Braggett sits in mournful reverie, and is soon haunted by the ghost of the plain, persistent poetess Charlotte Cray, in a garland of Victorian tales weird and wry.

Florence Marryat's 1883 collection gathers ghostly and sentimental stories. Eerie, witty, of its era. Read it for a lively Victorian miscellany from a popular spiritualist author, comic and chilling ghost stories, tender romances, and uncanny tales, showcasing the supernatural fiction that thrilled readers in the great age of the séance.

In its time

Published in 1883, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

4 hr 6 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).