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What if a quiet house holds secrets the dead are not ready to leave behind?
In The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, and Other Stories, Florence Marryat gathers the uneasy pleasures of the Victorian ghost tale. Quiet houses, family secrets and the unseen world shape this collection of Gothic short stories. The central fear is simple: the dead may still have business with the living, and familiar rooms may hold more than memories.
Marryat's interest in spiritualism gives her fascination with the unseen a place beyond fiction. Here, the title story and its companions invite you into the atmosphere of the Victorian parlour tale. These are stories for readers who enjoy lingering unease rather than fast horror: short enough for one sitting, yet capable of leaving a quiet house feeling less comfortable.
What you’ll discover
- Houses with a past Enter a Gothic world where rooms and corridors carry the memory of earlier lives.
- Secrets close to home Discover the uneasy pull of family secrets within the quiet spaces of domestic life.
- The dead remain near Explore the unsettling possibility that the living have not heard the last from the dead.
- An interest in spirits Read uncanny tales by a novelist whose interest in spiritualism extends beyond her fiction.
- Unease that stays Enjoy short stories whose Gothic atmosphere can linger after the reading ends.
Who will love it
This book suits readers who enjoy Victorian ghost stories, tales of jealousy and secret love, and gentle humor about travel and housekeeping, one short piece at a time.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A wronged friend returns after her burial
- A bargain house on the Wye is never empty
- An old love returns just as another begins
- Jealousy sends a colonel's wife to a haunted castle
- A house party hides a secret behind a screen
- A sketch of a sleepy Spanish town
- Real economy comes from thought, not prying
- A boy finds a mother and a loving home
- A flight from fever to a snowy Belgian town
- A journalist plays detective and tries a séance
Who’s who
- Sigismund BraggettA vain, prosperous publisher who wronged a woman writer and now fears his new wife will learn of her.
- Charlotte CrayA clever, lonely woman writer who is determined to meet the wife of the man she loves.
- Arthur DelamereA London doctor who rents a country mansion for his family and insists that reason can explain every strange noise.
- Ethel DunstanA colonel's wife in India who is so jealous of a young beauty that she takes her child to a lonely castle.
- General WilmerA retired soldier visiting his niece at Durham Hall who watches the guests and suspects the wrong woman.
- Charlie VereA lonely boy who is given a loving new mother and grows up believing his home is perfect.
- Elizabeth LacyA proud, orphaned companion who still loves the man who left her and who meets him again at her friend's engagement tea.
- TruemanA newspaper writer and amateur detective who hopes to catch a runaway and write a commissioned section in peace.
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Il fantasma di Charlotte Cray e altri racconti
by Florence Marryat · 1883
A publisher hears from his clerks that a woman buried last month called at his office yesterday and left a note.
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Imagine a publisher who hears that a woman he wronged has died and been buried, and then learns from his own clerks that she called at his office yesterday. That is how this book begins.
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A wronged friend returns after her burial
Sigismund Braggett is a prosperous publisher in Streatham, three months married. He has one secret from his wife Emily. Charlotte Cray, a woman writer, worked cheaply for him and hoped to marry him. When he wed someone else, she sent angry letters and called at his office.
Braggett grows sorry and invites her to his home. Instead, a black bordered letter arrives. Miss Cray has died and is already buried. Then his clerks tell him she waited for him in the office, in a thick veil and a blue bonnet. The doctor shows the death certificate, yet the visits go on.
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Marryat, Florence. The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-ghost-of-charlotte-cray-and-other-stories.
Marryat, F. (2026). The ghost of Charlotte Cray, and other stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-ghost-of-charlotte-cray-and-other-stories (Original work published 1883)
Marryat, Florence. The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-ghost-of-charlotte-cray-and-other-stories.
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What is The Ghost of Charlotte Cray and Other Stories about?
It is a collection of ten Victorian pieces by Florence Marryat. They include ghost stories, love stories, travel sketches, an essay on household economy, and a comic detective tale. Many center on jealousy, pride, and the hidden wrongs that trouble people.
Who is Charlotte Cray?
Charlotte Cray is a clever woman writer who works for the publisher Sigismund Braggett and hopes to marry him. After he marries Emily Primrose, she demands to meet his wife. Her presence is felt in his office and home even after her death.
Are the ghost stories in this book supposed to be true?
Marryat wrote these as fiction, though in Little White Souls the narrator insists the events are true. She was interested in spiritualism, so her ghosts are treated seriously, even when a tale ends with a comic or a natural explanation.
The author
Florence Marryat
1833–1899 · English novelist and actress
Florence Marryat (1833–1899) was a British novelist and actress. She was born in Brighton and died in London. Her first novel, Love’s Conflict, appeared in 1865. She wrote novels, short stories, and books about spiritualism. Her later fiction included The Blood of the Vampire, published in 1897.
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