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. Considered the first modern writer for children, Edith Nesbit wrote wonderfully imaginative tales about magical adventures in the everyday world. 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. 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. The Enchanted Castle Paperback edition by E.Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Set in the West Country in England, the story follows three childrenGerald, James and Kathleenand their discovery of an enchanted castle during the school holidays. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The Enchanted Castle is a 1907 children's fantasy novel written by Edith Nesbit (1858 1924). Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Includes exclusive content: In the Backstory you can find out more about the author and take the Enchanted Castle quiz! But with the air thick with magic, the sun blazing down, and a maze hiding a sleeping girl at its centre, the holidays might just be looking up. Could this really be an enchanted castle? Don't be a duffer, there's no such thing. They find a tunnel that leads to an old castle and have fun pretending the place is enchanted.
But that's before they stumble upon a mysterious castle set in beautiful, abandoned gardens. When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time.
'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be'
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