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Ghost stories : 36 spine-chilling tales of terror and the supernatural / edited by Bill Bowers. - Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2020] - viii, 471 pages ; 23 cm

The crime of Micah Rood / The devil and Tom Walker / An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / The snow-image: a childish miracle / A ghost of the Sierras / The lady's maid's bell / A ghost story / The night call / Tom Toothacre's ghost story / A strange story from the coast / The woman at Seven Brothers / The furnished room / The cross-roads / Jean-ah Poquelin / Mistress Marian's light / Consequences / The tell-tale heart / The wind in the rose-bush / The ghost of fear / Teig O'Kane and the corpse / The screaming skull / Canon Alberic's scrap-book / A true story/ The phantom 'rickshaw / The lagoon / On the water / The erl-king / The body-snatcher / The phantom coach / Ligeia / The secret of Macarger's Gulch / The old nurse's story / August heat / How he left the hotel / The man who went too far / The toll-house / Elia W. Peattie -- Washington Irving -- Ambrose Bierce -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Bret Harte -- Edith Wharton -- Mark Twain -- Henry van Dyke -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Wilbur Daniel Steele -- O. Henry -- Amy Lowell -- George Washington Cable -- Gertrude Morton -- Willa Cather -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- H. G. Wells -- [Traditional] -- F. Marion Crawford -- M. R. James -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Rudyard Kipling -- Joseph Conrad -- Guy de Maupassant -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Amelia B. Edwards -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Ambrose Bierce -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- W. F. Harvey -- Louisa Baldwin -- E. F. Benson -- W. W. Jacobs.

"Ghost Stories is a ghoulish collection of true classics, both legendary and long-forgotten, with frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Willa Cather, and many others. This ghostly collection delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales of terror we love to read - late at night, with the lights off"--

ISBN: 9781493049165 149304916X

LCCN: 2020010416

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC0D3847 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019928105 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ghosts--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Short stories
Horror tales.

LC Class. No.: PN6071.G45 / G46 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 808.83/8733