| Edition |
First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Sweet William's ghost (a popular ballad) -- The family portraits / Johann August Apel -- The tapestried chamber, or The lady in the square / Sir Walter Scott -- Gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- No. 1 branch line: The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Since I died / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- Mrs. Zant and the ghost / Wilkie Collins -- An inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce -- The last of Squire Ennismore / Charlotte (Mrs. J.H.) Riddell -- The philosphy of relative existences / Frank Stockton -- The real right thing / Henry James -- The lady's maid's bell / Edith Wharton -- A ghost story / Mark Twain -- Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad / M. R. James -- The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- The bowmen / Arthur Machen -- The substitute / Georgia Wood Pangborn. |
| Summary |
The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. |
| Subject |
Ghost stories, English.
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Ghost stories, American.
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Ghost stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00942400
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Ghost stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00942411
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| Genre/Form |
FICTION / Ghost.
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Ghost stories.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Klinger, Leslie S., editor.
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Morton, Lisa, 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781643130200 (hardback) |
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164313020X (hardback) |
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