The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Two, Hardcover - Allen Grove
Horror of horrorswas the face alive, or was he going mad?`` - Anonymous, ``The Weird Violin``. This second volume of Victorian Christmas ghost stories contains fifteen tales, most of which have never been reprinted.``At first I was aware only of a bluish, misty, phosphorescent light, and then a ghastly terror, that froze the very blood in my veins, seized me, for suddenly I saw rise up out of the inky darkness the form of a man--the eyes of a hideous red, fixed on mine with a look of hate .