Baldwin, Louisa: The Shadow on the Blind (collected ghosts). v1. 07 Nov 2018
 

THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND and Other Ghost Stories by Louisa Baldwin (1845–1925)

A double handful of stories, to entertain fans of Victorian ghosts. Specters make appearances in the land of the living (with sometimes tragic results), folk with a touch of the fey foresee deaths, and a family curse will have its way. Is the final story a tale of the supernatural? – or is it a fairytale?

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Louisa (Mrs. Alfred) Baldwin (25 August 1845 – 16 May 1925) was an English novelist, poet, and author of several popular Victorian ghost stories. She spent much of her adult life in a state of poor health, and her hatred of idleness, combined with her imagination, led her to write. She published four novels, several collections of verse, and one collection of ghost stories.


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This book was first published in 1895. Text is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is “Life+90” or less, and in the USA.

PDF scan of the 1895 first edition of The Shadow on the Blind was obtained from the digital archives of the British Library; “The Ticking of the Clock” from Longman’s Magazine archives at HathiTrust. OCR errors and obvious printer’s errors were silently corrected; punctuation, diacritics, and italics formatted. Story titles are cross-linked to table of contents. Embedded font used for titling.

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