The Phantom Coach
A Victorian Christmas Spirit Story

read this for english, last book of the school year... why am i lowkey sad? 😔 ▸ "I believe in the evidence of my own senses and I won’t change my mind." ▹ this was actually so good, I had such a fun time reading and analyzing this short story. the end was predictable, but really, really good. ▸ "Peop......more

By the time our Narrator tells us his little story it's been 20 years ago, that these happenings occured in the first. He was a newly wed at that time and it was in the middle of winter, Grouse Season. Our Narrator has lost his way in the moor somewhere far north of England. Initially he'd been lodgi......more

I've arranged my thoughts into a haiku: "Strident and lost, Ensnared in a grim routine By a wicked joke."......more

An unfortunate hunter and newlywed husband is lost in the snow on a bleak, wide moor in northern England. He comes upon an old guide who directs him to a warm cabin where he finds refuge with a bitter alchemist, whose theories on the unknown spike his imagination. Anxious to return to his new young......more

'The Phantom Coach' is an atmospheric gothic ghost story written about 1864 by Amelia B. Edwards. The author moves slowly into the plot involving a horrific encounter with ghosts by the stories narrator.......more