Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New

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Marvin Kaye

Saralee Kaye

Introduction (Ghosts) * Marvin Kaye

A Prologue of Last Words * Marvin Kaye

Minuke * (1949) * Nigel Kneale

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The Wind in the Rose-Bush * (1902) * Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Legal Rites * (1950) * Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl

Smee * (1929) * A.M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X ]

Thurlow's Christmas Story * (1894) * John Kendrick Bangs

The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael and the Goblin * (1868) * W.S. Gilbert

A Quartet of Strange Things * (1971) * Bernhardt J. Hurwood

The Lady of Finnigan's Hearth * (1977) * Parke Godwin

The Phantom Hag * Guy de Maupassant

The Ghost of the Capuchins * Eugene Montfort

Who Rides With Santa Anna? * (1959) * Edward D. Hoch

Jane * Barbara Gallow

The Tale of the German Student (aka The Adventure of the German Student) * (1824) * Washington Irving

The Hounds of Hell * John Masefield

Doorslammer * (1963) * Donald A. Wollheim

The Ensouled Violin * (1892) * Helena P. Blavatsky

The Monk of Horror * (1796) * Anonymous

Mr. Justice Harbottle * (1872) * Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Flying Dutchman * Traditional

The Parlor-Car Ghost * Anonymous

The Red Room * (1896) * H.G. Wells

A Gathering of Ghosts * Craig Shaw Gardner

The Woman's Ghost Story * (1907) * Algernon Blackwood

Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman * (1887) * Wilkie Collins

The Phantom Woman * Anonymous

The Spectre Bride * Anonymous

The Midnight Embrace * (1973) * Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Philosophy of Relative Existences * (1892) * Frank R. Stockton

21 Main Street No. * Z.Z. Jeromm

Four Ghosts in Hamlet * (1965) * Fritz Leiber

The Ghost of Sailboat Fred * Saralee Terry

The Fisherman's Story * Faith Lancereau and Anatole Le Braz

The Old Mansion * Anonymous

The Haunting of Y-12 * Al Sarrantonio

The Ghostly Rental * (1876) * Henry James

Untitled Ghost Story (Prologue to "Automata") * (1814) * E.T.A. Hoffmann

The Doll's Ghost * (1911) * F. Marion Crawford

Staley Fleming's Hallucination * (1906) * Ambrose Bierce

The Dead Woman's Photograph * Anonymous

The Castle of the King * (1881) * Bram Stoker

The Canterville Ghost * (1887) * Oscar Wilde

Blind Man's Buff * (1929) * H. Russell Wakefield

A Suffolk Miracle * Traditional

Father Stein's Tale * R.H. Benson

The Old Nurse's Story * (1852) * Elizabeth Gaskell

Money Talks * Dick Baldwin

The Ghost of the Count * Anonymous

The Body Snatcher * (1884) * Robert Louis Stevenson

"The Penhale Broadcast" * (1947) * Jack Snow

The Last Traveler * (1965) * Jean Ray

Phantom Regiment * (1847) * James Grant

The Tale of the Bagman's Uncle (aka The Bagman's Story) * (1837) * Charles Dickens

The North Mail * (1864) * Amelia B. Edwards

How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery * (1911) * E.F. Benson

Ralph * Marvin Kaye

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adult
Length
epic · 652 pages

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