Fantasy, Faeries and Ghosts, Volume 2

These haunted, luminous tales come from an age when writers still believed the world had hidden doors. The collection gathers five masters of the uncanny - MacDonald, Hoffmann, Le Fanu, Stoker, and Hunt - each reaching across the veil between the rational and the numinous. Here you'll find changelings left on doorsteps, phantoms drifting through moonlit estates, faerie courts where mortals are trapped by beautiful cruelty. The stories operate on multiple levels: as simple wonder-tales, as dark folklore, as psychological explorations of desire and dread. What endures is their dual nature - these are genuinely frightening ghost stories that also sparkle with genuine wonder. They capture a moment when the Victorian imagination still entertained the possibility that forests held courts, that mirrors reflected other times, that the dead might tap at windows with specific demands.