A Victorian Ghost Story for Christmas | Lettice Galbraith | The Missing Model | #Audiobook

It's that time again 🎄and here is another old ghost story for Christmas. It is the season for supernatural tales so relax and enjoy. And please check out our channel for more ghost stories for Christmas. Our "Fiendishly Forgotten Female Frighteners" series of weird stories continues with another vintage tale from Lettice Galbraith, "The Missing Model." Once again, belatedly (apologies). This is the third Lettice Galbraith story I have read. Her obscure accounts of darkly sinister paranormal activity set in the late Victorian era have made quite an impression on me! Here are links to the first two videos: In The Séance Room -    • In The Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith | ...   A Ghost's revenge -    • A Victorian Ghost Story for Christmas  🎄 A...   I intend to complete the set by uploading videos of her other stories soon. The ones remaining are: The Case of Lady Lukestan The Trainer's Ghost The Ghost in the Chair The Blue Room In the introduction to an earlier video, "In the Seance Room," I mentioned that Miss Galbraith was "as mysterious as the tales she told." She has, in fact, been hailed as: "Probably the most mysterious figure in the history of supernatural literature." But thanks to some recent research by Alastair Gunn, we now know much more about this enigmatic Victorian writer. Lizzie Susan Gibson, or Lettie as she was known, was born in Hull but later relocated to London. She adopted the pseudonym Lettice Galbraith, and her ghost stories are still mostly excluded from studies of supernatural literature. Despite writing within a genre popular in the 1890s, little is known of her life, her literary inner circle, or those who may have influenced her. Writers of haunting tales and unexplained phenomena made the most of the prevailing public fascination using the tropes of disturbing narratives; misty London streets, violence, and suppressed depravation. Lettie also capitalised on this trend and embraced the period's fascination with hypnotism and the occult. Her tales include scary encounters, spine-chilling experiences, eerie atmospheres, foul murder, and ghostly apparitions and phantoms. Within the conventions of supernatural fiction, Galbraith's work should have been regarded alongside stories by writers such as Louisa Baldwyn, E. Nesbit, Marie Corelli, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It has been posited that the late Victorian period witnessed the rise of the psychological paranormal story, in which "ghosts, whether objectively existing or subjective phantoms – materialise the psychological conflicts of the ghost-seer." The fascination with scientific experimentation, the limits of art, and the explanations for hauntings and hallucinations often underpin the addiction to the "ghostly" in this era. This story above was published in the Collection "New Ghost Stories" in 1893. I hope you enjoy listening and watching this rendition of a long-forgotten tale. And I look forward to engaging in the next one.