The Old Nurse's Story: Elizabeth Gaskell

`Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...`

A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from the great Victorian novelist.

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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). Gaskell`s works available in Penguin Classics are Cranford, Cranford and Cousin Phillis, Gothic Tales, Mary Barton, North and South, Ruth, Sylvia`s Lovers, The Life of Charlotte Bronte and Wives and Daughters.