Vintage Scary Stories for the Modern Ghost Volume 2

Introduction

In many online sites today; we can browse numerous types of ghost stories or horror stories. We've got creepypastas, short horror stories from personal experiences on YouTube and Twitter. Almost anywhere in the 21st century since the invention of the Internet can you get your hands on a good creepy story to chill the very marrow of your bones.

But what about our late Victorian ancestors? They didn't have the Internet back in the 1800s to the early 1900s. All they had were books or groups of friends they'd listen to on some dark, windy, wintery or autumn night. Did you know that ghost stories in the Victorian era were really popular as a Christmas tradition?? How else do you think we got Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"! That in itself is a ghost story made for Christmas!

Ghost stories from the early era of gothic gloom and death are really something else man. Of course, probably by today's standards they're mild and not even that remotely scary to what we hear now. But you sometimes have to appreciate the creativity that these people had in order to write chilling stories at the time. They were easily scared of a person dressed in a bedsheet (I'm not kidding; there was a legit incident in London where a guy was arrested for scaring people while dressed in a white sheet back in the 1800s).

That kind of stuff really scared the be-jeebus out of people during the Victorian era. So writers and authors took these fears that people had at the time and made it work into literary works of horror and art. And it's something to admire honestly.

In fact, some of these stories, if you look hard enough, can actually be really creepy and spooky in today's standards. And that is my goal.

I want to introduce this modern world of horror lovers and ghostly fanatics to a taste of what life was like in the 1800s to the early 1900s.

And here I present even more tales of horror, a sequel to my first volume of my favorite classic ghost stories from the Victorian era! So please snuggle up close in your bed or chair, dim the lights, let the other ghosts sit around you to listen while you read. And enjoy the spooky stories!