Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard

Rating:
Summary: Minor Victoriana of the Gothick Type
Review: Anticipation of this book did not fulfill my expectations. Though a devotee of Victorian ghost stories and novellas, this collection is one of the bottom of the victorian barrel as to horror & tales of terror. Some authors become unknown shortly after their demise, this is not necessarily a bad thing. For many especially during the 19th century were vailant authors that wrote to scratch out a living, but who for the most part were uninspired by the gothick muse. Many of the tales in this collection are of a melodramatic "penny dreadful" quality from that era. A memorable tale of terror should grab the reader within a few pages and hold them until the last word. Again, many of these stories made me feel like required college reading of minor Victorian authors. My conclusion...let these dead authors rest in peace, unless your are a student of 19th century literary minutiae.