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In reply to the discussion: Can anyone recommend any terrific 19th Century ghost story writers such as Bram Stoker [View all]

PufPuf23

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12. Dion Fortune is not quite 19th century and the occult rather than ghosts specifically was
Reply to raccoon (Original post)
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 10:36 PM
Jan 2016

her subject matter and she was primarily an occultist rather than a novelists but I really like her fiction.

Fortune was born at the end of Elizabethan England and came of age and was a person of Edwardian England.

Her novels and one edition of short stories were published or written in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, 1926
The Demon Lover, 1927
The Winged Bull, 1935
The Goat-Foot God, 1936
The Sea Priestess, 1938
Moon Magic, (unfinished in her lifetime, and published posthumously in 1956)

These are all very fine and timeless reads (I have read all of them at least twice)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Fortune

I am fond of EA Poe and HP Lovecraft.

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Can anyone recommend any terrific 19th Century ghost story writers such as Bram Stoker [View all] raccoon Jan 2016 OP
Edgar Allen Poe? packman Jan 2016 #1
Yep, Poe's worth a re-read. nt raccoon Jan 2016 #6
W.W. Jacobs wrote "The Monkey's Paw" in 1902. Adsos Letter Jan 2016 #2
Me too. I know he wrote other stories; wonder if any of the rest were that scary. nt raccoon Jan 2016 #5
Not exactly what you're looking for, but... TreasonousBastard Jan 2016 #3
Read some of his stuff when I was in college and T rex roamed the earth. Might be worth a go at his raccoon Jan 2016 #4
Not much is really that memorable, but... TreasonousBastard Jan 2016 #7
Have you read The Woman in White? pscot Jan 2016 #8
Yes. I love Wilkie Collins. nt raccoon Jan 2016 #9
How about Henry James hermetic Jan 2016 #10
Read it in college. Maybe I'll give it another try. Turn of the raccoon Jan 2016 #11
Dion Fortune is not quite 19th century and the occult rather than ghosts specifically was PufPuf23 Jan 2016 #12
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