# Holy Ghosts

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- Authors: [Fiona Snailham](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-snailham)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2023-06-08
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction

## Description

“I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard.” A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a cathedral’s hallowed inner sanctum; sheltering in an Alpine chapel, a young libertine confronts his eerie monastic doppelgänger; locked in a Spanish cathedral, a honeymooning couple bears witness to a fatal procession. Churches and other sacred sites have inspired writers of the weird and uncanny for centuries as spaces in which death and the afterlife are within touching distance – where ghosts, demons and possessed effigies remain to haunt the living. Through eleven stories published between 1851 and 1935, this new anthology revives a throng of undying spirits from a host of unsung and classic authors including Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, John Wyndham, and Edith Wharton.

## Editions

### Holy Ghosts

- Publisher: British Library
- ISBN: 978-07-1235-413-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2023-06-08
- Language: en_US