Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Supernatural Stories (tales of ghosts and mystery: The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch, Disappearances, The Crooked Branch...) (Halloween Stories)

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her first novel, &quote;Mary Barton&quote;, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her remaining novels are &quote;Cranford&quote; (1853), &quote;North and South&quote; (1854), and &quote;Wives and Daughters&quote; (1865). Gaskell became popular for her writing, especially her ghost stories, aided by Charles Dickens, who published her work in his magazine &quote;Household Words&quote;. Her supernatural stories are superior examples of the sentimental ghost tale so typical of the Victorian period. They combine a taste for the macabre with a deeply-felt sympathy for the extremes of female experience.