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. Page) continued, Montgomerys husband Ewan MacDonald continued to suffer clinical depression. While the legal battle with Montgomerys publishing company (L.C. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. Emily Climbs is the second in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. She published 20 novels and 500 short stories during her lifetime and was the first woman to be named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She found instant literary fame upon the publication of her first book, Anne of Green Gables. (Lucy Maud) Physical Description 317 p., 1 leaf of plates : 1 col. 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. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian novelist and the famed author of the Anne Shirley series. Emily climbs Statement of Responsibility L.M. 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. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty.
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