About the author
Jo-Anne Christensen is the author of Ghost Stories of British Columbia, published by Dundurn Press in 1996, and a contributor to Victorian Ghost Stories, published by Ghost House Books in 2004. Ghost Stories of British Columbia gathers supernatural tales drawn from the province's history, archives and residents, describing it as one of Canada's most reputedly haunted regions. Victorian Ghost Stories situates its collection within the nineteenth-century literary tradition associated with writers such as Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe, alongside the era's wider cultural fascination with the paranormal, including practices like body-snatching. Christensen's work sits within the regional and historical ghost-story genre, favoring collected accounts and archival research over personal investigation or instructional content, and her British Columbia title in particular reflects a specifically Canadian body of folklore.
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“Jo-Anne Christensen delivers a meticulous exploration of Victorian spectral fascination, linking literary output to societal fears and grave-robbing practices. The book succeeds in contextualizing why the veil felt thin during…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Victorian Ghost Stories Christensen, Jo-Anne
“While this collection offers a compelling glimpse into British Columbia's spectral history, it is not suited for skeptics demanding empirical evidence or readers seeking dense theoretical occultism. It does not appeal to those…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Ghost Stories of British Columbia
