Goblin Tales of Lancashire: Short Stories of Spectres, Goblins and The Supernatural: Victorian English Literature

With titles such as Satan's Supper, The Headless Woman, and The Fairy Funeral, it is clear these are dark tales more of witches and spectres than our modern expectation of benevolent fairies. Reading them is as much a lesson in the language of nineteenth century Lancashire as its superstitions and preoccupation with the supernatural.