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A cuckoo fills the life of a lonely little girl with excitement, friendship, and travels to imaginative far-off lands.

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your listening pleasure.

A fabulous collection of some of the most intriguing British short stories ever written. Includes "The Pipe" by Anonymous, "The Puzzle" by Anonymous, "The Man with the Cough by Mrs Molesworth, "The Pavillion on the Links" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Horror of the Heights" by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle, and "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence.

Mrs. Molesworth was an English writer who claimed morals as the aim of her words. This is true of this story. Two brothers come to understand that no bad fairy causes havoc in a home, but perhaps missing items could be the result of boys who have yet to learn the value of cleaning up what they have messed up - and the good fairy was someone they knew.