Introduction: Haunted Narratives: Liminality, Narrative Reliability, and Resolution
1 Haunted Love: Drowned Women and Revenge Fantasies
“The Cold Embrace” (1860) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“A Terrible Vengeance” (1889) by Charlotte Riddell
Weeping Ferry (1898) by Margaret L. Woods
2 Haunted Memories: Pretty Boys and the Ones That Got Away
“The Last House in C— Street” (1856) by Dinah Maria Mulock
“Poor Pretty Bobby” (1873) by Rhoda Broughton
“Thorleigh Moat: A Grandmother’s Tale” (1876) by A. E. Barker
“The Story of the Rippling Train” (1888) by Mary Louisa Molesworth
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance” (1893) by Edith Nesbit
3 Haunted Marriage: Mesmerism, Deception, and the Runaway Wife
“The Man with the Nose” (1873) by Rhoda Broughton
“In the Séance Room” (1893) by Lettice Galbraith
“From the Dead” (1893) by Edith Nesbit
4 Haunted Children: Legitimacy, Inheritance, and the Sins of the Fathers
“The Old Nurse’s Story” (1852) by Elizabeth Gaskell
“Walnut Tree-House” (1882) by Charlotte Riddell
“The Open Door” (1882) by Margaret Oliphant
5 Haunted Families: Legacy and the Baggage of the Past
“The Secret Chamber” (1876) by Margaret Oliphant
“The Weird of the Walfords” (1895) by Louisa Baldwin
“The Undying Fire” (1895) by Mrs. St. Loe Strachey (Amy Strachey)
“The Ghost of the Sedan-Chair” (1896) by Marie Corelli
6 Haunted Rentals: Uncanny Familial Spaces
“The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth” (1868) by Rhoda Broughton
“Chantry Manor House: A Ghost Story” (1876) by Mrs. Hartley
“To Let” (1893) by B. M. Croker
7 Haunted Travel: Terror on the Road
“The Phantom Coach” (1864) by Amelia B. Edwards
“Under the Cloak” (1873) by Rhoda Broughton
“At the Dip of the Road” (1896) by Mary Louisa Molesworth
8 Haunted Others: The Racialized Ghost
Monsieur Maurice (1873) by Amelia B. Edwards
“The Story of Salome” (1873) by Amelia B. Edwards
“Old Mrs. Jones” (1882) by Charlotte Riddell
9 Haunted Bodies: Spirit Possession and Class Mobility
The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs (1896) by Florence Marryat
“The Legend of Madame Krasinska” (1915) by Vernon Lee
10 Haunted Music: Ghostly Echoes and Hommes Fatales
“The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly” (1886) by Rosa Mulholland
“A Wicked Voice” (1890) by Vernon Lee
“The Ensouled Violin” (1892) by Helena Blavatsky
Biography
Anne DeLong is Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, United States, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature and women’s studies.
