The Victorian era brought an explosion of literature to the minds of the reading public with famous writers lending their talents to ghastly tales set in castles, mansions, lonely streets and long dark lanes. A fantastic new companion for late-night scares as the nights draw in. Chilling ghost stories from the era of the fireside tale, a series of dark and foreboding missives from the masterful pens of Charles Dickens, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Ambrose Bierce and the master of all, M.R. James.