Trevelyan has kept Claire’s manuscript for decades, but has never read it. Ghosts by Gaslight, co-edited by Jack and Nick Gevers, has garnered another great review. Shortly thereafter, her husband dies as well under mysterious circumstances. Edited by Jack Dann (World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of Dreaming Down Under) and Nick Gevers (acclaimed editor and book reviewer), Ghosts by Gaslight. After Claire’s daughter suffers a fatal illness, Claire writes a manuscript, and then dies with her daughter’s body in her arms. When Claire attempted to leave her husband, he threatened her with taking away their child and leaving her mother and sisters destitute. If you hunger for strange tales featuring things that go bump in the night, ghostly apparitions in Gothic mansions, and phantoms frequenting cemeteries. Claire was married to an older man to gain security for her family after her father died, and the marriage was an unhappy one. Ghosts by gaslight by Jack Dann, Nick Gevers, 2011, HarperCollins Publishers Limited edition, in English. Maurice and Laura’s story becomes the framefor Trevelyan’s explanation for what happened to the young woman he loved, Claire. Creator: edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers.
Face to Face (John Harwood): (10 pages, takes place in England.) Maurice Trevelyan and the narrator, Laura, have known each other for a long time, and their relationship has never become a romance because Maurice has a tragedy in his past. Ghosts by gaslight : stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense.
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