Thomas Ingoldsby was the alias of Richard Harris Barham, a Cleric for the Church of England. In between his sermons (he at one time had a minor canonry at St. Paul’s Cathedral), Barham collected Kentish folklore, which he transcribed as pastiches as “The Ingoldsby Legends” in Bentley’s Miscellany, an English magazine edited by Charles Dickens. Most of the stories are written in prose, poking fun at famous plays, books, and people of the day, and were illustrated by various artists such as George Cruikshank (a […]
The Glen, which the keeper’s daughter was seen to enter, but never known to quit, still frowns darkly as of yore; while an ineradicable bloodstain on the oaken stair yet bids defiance to the united energies of soap and sand
The Ingoldsby Legends Vol. 1 by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham)
The Ingoldsby Legends Vol. 2 by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham)