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The Ghost Club

By William Meikle
The Ghost Club by William Meikle digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

Writers never really die; their stories live on, to be found again, to be told again, to scare again.


In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Henry James held an informal dining club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest.

These are their stories, containing tales of revenant loved ones, lost cities, weird science, spectral appearances and mysteries in the fog of the old city, all told by some of the foremost writers of the day. In here you'll find Verne and Wells, Tolstoy and Checkov, Stevenson and Oliphant, Kipling, Twain, Haggard and Blavatsky alongside their hosts.

Come, join us for dinner and a story:

 

Robert Louis Stevenson - Wee Davie Makes a Friend

Rudyard Kipling - The High Bungalow

Leo Tolstoy - The Immortal Memory

Bram Stoker - The House of the Dead

Mark Twain - Once a Jackass

Herbert George Wells - Farside

Margaret Oliphant - To the Manor Born

Oscar Wilde - The Angry Ghost

Henry Rider Haggard - The Black Ziggurat

Helena P Blavatsky - Born of Ether

Henry James - The Scrimshaw Set

Anton Checkov - At the Molenzki Junction

Jules Verne - To the Moon and Beyond

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Curious Affair on the Embankment

 

Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.

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“My initial reaction to https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22123.William_Meikle ’s The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror was not a particularly favourable one, however, once I figured out exactly what was really going on, I quickly lapped it up. At first glance it looks like a collection of old ghost stories written in the Victorian era, of which there are many, and is cobbled together by a hammy narrator interconnecting the stories. I have a feeling this was exactly what William Meikle wanted the unsuspecting reader to think. When I looked down the impressive list of contributors, many all-time greats are featured, including https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/854076.Robert_Louis_Stevenson , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6989.Rudyard_Kipling , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/128382.Leo_Tolstoy , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6988.Bram_Stoker , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1244.Mark_Twain , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3565.Oscar_Wilde , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/159.Henry_James , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/696805.Jules_Verne , https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2448.Arthur_Conan_Doyle and others, bringing the total to fourteen. After an initial browse, I then presumed most of the stories would be copyright free and easy to obtain on Kindle and that this anthology would just be a waste of my hard-earned cash. How wrong I was. You can read Tony's full review at Horror DNA by https://www.horrordna.com/books/the-ghost-club-newly-found-tales-of-victorian-terror-william-meikle-book-review .”

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