Illusions of Presence

Author: Johnny Mains

Christmas | Classic horror & ghost stories

Published on 16^th October 2025 by British Library Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of the 'British Library Gilded Nightmares' series.

Hardback | 188 pages
190mm x 130mm | 0g

As clanging bells pierce the Winter calm, a bustling throng of spectral visitants is making its approach. The eminent anthologist and seeker of forgotten tales, Johnny Mains, has been scouring the archives of newspapers and periodicals once more to bring you the gift of 'new' supernatural fiction from the Victorian and Edwardian era - the heyday of the classic ghost tale. Packed with ethereal messengers, chain-clanking ghouls, the odd cheery phantom and bundles of suspense, this collection is a welcome offering for any reader of the ghostly and Gothic.