pstrongemThirteen rare tales by the most prolific Victorian Christmas ghost story author, collected and republished for the first time!emstrongppMove over, Charles Dickens! The author of A Christmas Carol may be the most famous Victorian author of Christmas ghost stories, but the king of the genre was James Skipp Borlase 1839-1909, who published dozens of them in obscure British and Australian periodicals during a nearly fifty-year span. Now for the first time, thirteen of Borlase's best tales have been unearthed from newspaper archives and compiled in a single volume for modern readers.ppIn A Weird Wooing 1898 an impecunious suitor braves a house haunted by the ghosts of plague victims in search of a legendary treasure. The Steel-Bound Valise 1875 tells of a horrid murder and a spectral vision that reveals the truth behind the awful deed. In A Bride from the Dead 1899, a man races against time on horseback to save his beloved from a forced marriage-but arrives too late to prevent an e