Decent collection of turn-of-the-century ghost stories. Some of these stories are creepy, some are preachy, and some are downright funny (I'm thinking particularly of 'A Happy Release'). Very late Victorian. Worth the read for those of us who enjoy an old-fashioned story every once in a while.

I can picture a parlour room on a cold, dark night, the occupants gathered round a roaring fire, ladies clutching lace handkerchiefs to trembling smiles as Baring-Gould nurses a generous brandy and tells another of his ghost stories.

By 21st Century standards, the tales are far from chilling, unless

An interesting collection of ghost stories told by Sabine Baring-Gould, so there is no typical commentary that is usually in his books. Many of these ghost stories have a lesson or moral attached to them and are more spooky than scary. Though some of these stories are a bit dated in their morals, fo

This is just what it says in the title, a book of ghosts. Ghost stories of many varieties written by one person and published in this compilation in the year 1904. So the language and style are definitely dated and sometimes hard reading. The stories themselves also vary in their quality and spookin

Wonderful Book

Sometimes poetic and sometimes prophetic rarely tedious as the Bible can be! A rare find at he right time it will touch you with ancients magic.

Quite a maddening book to review. As ghost stories go, most of these tales are not scary at all, nor are they particularly well written. There are, however, a handful of humourous stories here which are very fine, such as the tale of the ghost of a French waiter who is exorcised in typical Gallic fa

I was not very impressed with this read. It left me bored. It was a book of some length with very boring uneventful ghost stories.
Enjoy and Be Blessed.
Diamond

Sometimes, when I have finished a mediocre book, I try not to judge it too harshly, but instead savor the pleasure of encountering the intelligent and amiable person who wrote it. Just as you might if you were remembering a conversation with an interesting old man on a train.

It is 1904. You are taki

Sabine Baring-Gould was a man of numerous talents. He was an Anglican priest, a respected archaeologist, a folklorist, and one of the most prolific writers of both fiction and non-fiction of the Victorian era. There are more than twelve hundred publications listed in his bibliography, and his works