But with the air thick with magic, the sun blazing down, and a maze hiding a sleeping girl at its centre, the holidays might just be looking up. Could this really be an enchanted castle? Don't be a duffer, there's no such thing. But that's before they stumble upon a mysterious castle set in beautiful, abandoned gardens. When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be' Jacobs ('The Monkey’s Paw') will turn you white as a sheet. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ('The Moonlit Road'), Elizabeth Gaskell ('The Old Nurse’s Story'), and W. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. First published in 1907, The Enchanted Castle is a timeless story of friendship and magic. When she was asked to try her hand at children’s stories, she created a series of books that combined fantasy and memories of her own childhood.

Nesbit, born in 1858, was an unconventional woman whose home was a center for writers and artists, including George Bernard Shaw and H.G. It’s not long before the four friends are surrounded by strange and wonderful things.Į.

It can make the wearer invisible and grant wishes. But she has a ring that really is magical. Although she pretends to be an enchanted princess, she is Mabel, the housekeeper’s niece. Instead, they find an enchanted place - and magic, too! Walking through a nearby forest, they discover an enormous mansion, where a girl lies asleep in the garden. One morning, they set out to find adventure.

Instead, they stay at Kathleen’s school with the French teacher. Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen can’t go home for their school holiday because their cousin is sick with measles there.

The enchanted castle by e nesbit