Elizabeth Gaskell: The Complete Supernatural Stories (tales of ghosts and mystery: The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch, Disappearances, The Crooked Branch...)

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer.

Her first novel, "e;Mary Barton"e;, was published anonymously in 1848.

The best-known of her remaining novels are "e;Cranford"e; (1853), "e;North and South"e; (1854), and "e;Wives and Daughters"e; (1865).

Gaskell became popular for her writing, especially her ghost stories, aided by Charles Dickens, who published her work in his magazine "e;Household Words"e;.

Her supernatural stories are superior examples of the sentimental ghost tale so typical of the Victorian period.

They combine a taste for the macabre with a deeply-felt sympathy for the extremes of female experience.