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Victorian Literature
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The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, public health, electricity, chemistry and agriculture, were being, if not laid, at least mapped out, people could still believe in the existence of devils and demons. And why not? A good ghost story is pure entertainment. It was not until well into the twentieth century that ghost stories began to ha
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― Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
― Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
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The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.
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― Alistair Grim's Odditorium
― Alistair Grim's Odditorium
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