As I was not yet writing reviews when I read this book, I don't have reviews for each of the short stories included in this anthology. So here are my ratings; if I ever reread the book, I intend to add reviews.★★★☆☆ The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott★★★☆☆ The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwar...
"Not in your world.....but in some borderland of buried kings and lovers"Linnette Lewarne, married to a much older man, meets Breton Amyot by pure chance and their fates are forever sealed as they begin to relive a past that has happened time and time again through the centuries - that of Tristan an...
The English really do excel at writing ghost stories. I can honestly say that I didn't regret reading one of these stories in this book. I actually read it in a very short amount of time, which is impressive for an anthology that is sizable. There is just something about the English setting for a...
Read this in an edition of ca. 1950 - Quiller-Couch/Dover Wilson. Source - University of Calgary. Quiller-Couch writes that this is an over-written version of an early effort, and I believe him: it's uneven in every sense, bumping along from blank verse to rhyming couplets. But early critics also cl...