Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Best Ghost Story 20 from 1800-1849 is "The Ghost with the Golden Casket" by Allan Cunningham

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This is an exciting time because we have reached in the countdown the Top 20 ghost stories for the first half of the nineteenth century. ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Best Ghost Story 21 from 1800-1849 is The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington by Charles Ollier

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Ghost story 21 of the Top 40 from 1800-1849 is The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington by Charles Ollier (1788-1859). "The Haunted Ma...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Best Ghost Story 22 from 1800-1849 is "Allan M'Tavish" by Caroline Norton

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One of the first and few scary ghost stories by a female author takes spot 22 in my countdown of the Top 40 ghost short stories for the f...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Best Ghost Story 23 from 1800-1849

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Horace Smith (1779-1849) was an English stockbroker, poet and novelist. When he became independently wealthy trading stocks, he turned to...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Best Ghost Story 24 from 1800-1849 is "The Water Spirit"

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Joseph Snowe's ghost story "All Soul's Eve" appeared at spot 30 in my countdown of the Top 40 ghost stories from 1800-1...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Best Ghost Story 25 from 1800-1849

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Coming in at spot 25 in my countdown of the Top 40 ghost stories published in the  English language for the first half of the nineteenth ...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology Published!

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In my last post I promised exciting news. Well, here it is. The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology is published and...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Best Ghost Story 26 from 1800-1849: "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" by Charles Dickens

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The 26th best ghost story of the fifty year period in review comes to us by the venerable Charles "Boz" Dickens (1812-1870). Th...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

Scary Story in Nashville - U2 Concert

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Best Ghost Story 27 from 1800-1849: The Chase

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In October of 1833 a scary ghost story was published in The Western Monthly Magazine , a publication that was unafraid to publish superna...