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The big book of ghost stories
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication Date
2012.
Language
English
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From the Book
But I'm not dead yet. Mr. Arcularis / Conrad Aiken ; August heat / William Fryer Harvey
I'll love you
forever (or maybe not). The shadowy third / Ellen Glasgow ; The past / Ellen Glasgow ; But at my back I always hear / David Morrell ; The furnished room / O. Henry ; Death's warm fireside / Paul Ernst ; The advent reunion / Andrew Klavan ; The return / R. Murray Gilchrist ; The phantom rickshaw / Rudyard Kipling ; The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce ; The story of Ming-Y / Lafcadio Hearn ; Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn
This old house. Brickett Bottom / Amyas Northcote ; How fear departed from the long gallery / E.F. Benson ; Thing of darkness / G.G. Pendarves ; The house of the nightmare / Edward Lucas White ; The house in Half Moon Street / Hector Bolitho ; A night of horror / Dick Donovan ; The burned house / Vincent O'Sullivan
Kids will be kids. Harry / Rosemary Timperley ; Make-believe / Michael Reaves ; Playmate / A.M. Burrage ; Just behind you / Ramsey Campbell ; Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard ; The lost boy of the Ozarks / Steve Friedman
There's something funny around here. A ghost's story / Mark Twain ; In at the death / Donald E. Westlake ; The ghost of Dr. Harris / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; The everlasting club / "Inculphus" ; Legal rites / Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh ; Death must die / Albert E. Cowdrey ; The transferred ghost / Frank Stockton ; The Canterville ghost / Oscar Wilde
A negative train of thought. Pacific 421 / August Derleth ; The midnight el / Robert Weinberg
Stop
you're scaring me. Punch and Judy / Frederick Cowles ; The fireplace / Henry S. Whitehead ; The night wire / H.F. Arnold ; Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber ; Song of the dead / Wyatt Blassingame
I must be dreaming. The dream woman / Wilkie Collins ; The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving
A séance, you say? They found my grave / Joseph Shearing ; Mrs. Morrel's last séance / Edgar Jepson ; Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates
Classics. "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you my lad" / M.R. James ; The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs ; The toll-house / W.W. Jacobs ; Afterward / Edith Wharton ; Consequences / Willa Cather ; The follower / Cynthia Asquith ; The corner shop / Cynthia Asquith ; The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft ; The murderer's violin / Erckmann-Chatrian ; The open window / Saki ; Laura / Saki ; What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien ; Full fathom five / Alexander Woollcott ; He cometh and he passeth by / H.R. Wakefield ; Thurnley Abbey / Perceval Landon
The female of the species. The woman's ghost story / Algernon Blackwood ; The angel of the Marne / Victor Rousseau ; The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar ; The avenging of Ann Leete / Marjorie Bowen
Beaten to a pulp. The dead-wagon / Greye LaSpina ; A soul with two bodies / Urann Thayer ; The ghosts of Steamboat Coulee / Arthur J. Burks ; The considerate hosts / Thorp McClusky ; The fifth candle / Cyril Mand ; The return of Andrew Bentley / August Derleth and Mark Schorer ; The floor above / M.L. Humphreys ; School for the unspeakable / Manly Wade Wellman ; Mordecai's pipe / A.V. Milyer ; He walked by day / Julius Long ; Behind the screen / Dale Clark
Modern masters. Journey into the kingdom / M. Rickert ; Mr. Saul / H.R.F. Keating ; Coventry carol / Chet Williamson.
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9780307474490
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