With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills. Jacobs ('The Monkey’s Paw') will turn you white as a sheet. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ('The Moonlit Road'), Elizabeth Gaskell ('The Old Nurse’s Story'), and W.

The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Contains: The Repairer of Reputations, The Mask, In the Court of the Dragon, The Yellow Sign. The intertextual narrative, The Yellow Sign, is a great example of his work. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. Robert Chambers' The King in Yellow is widely regarded as a classic compilation of horror stories.

Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. I looked across the square to where the fountain was playing. The tale is prefaced with a quote from Bliss Carmans Let the Red Dawn Surmise that holds some. A man was standing in the courtyard of the church, and I noticed him again with as little interest as I had that morning. Late in the afternoon, the day being warm, I raised the window again and leaned out to get a sniff of air. I paid no more attention to him than I had to any other man who lounged through Washington Square that morning, and when I shut my window and turned back into my studio I had forgotten him.

I looked at him indifferently until he went into the church. When I first saw the watchman his back was toward me. Chambers, The Yellow Sign LP - Read by Anthony D. There are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage? Why should the Mass of Sainte Cécile bend my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o'clock that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight filtered through spring foliage and Sylvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly, over a small green lizard, murmuring: 'To think that this also is a little ward of God!' Cadabra Records (CADABR-12 / 2017) Vinyl LP - Coloured Vinyl, Limited Edition, Booklet USA Import - PSILOWAVE EXCLUSIVE RETAIL EDITION - Translucent Night Blue Vinyl Robert W.

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